24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218064
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-03-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/11912/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218064
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24 26 28, HAMILTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32641 89076
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3289 HAMILTON STREET 789-1/9/80 (North West side) 28/03/74 Nos.24, 26 AND 28
GV II
Row of 3 shops. c1840. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays with curved corners at each end, 2-bay return to John Street. Continuous shop front probably inserted late C19 though with later modifications. Rusticated quoins at angles and piers to each side of segmentally-arched doors. Cast-iron columns support fascia. Upper windows in stressed architraves with bolection moulding and enriched console brackets to segmental pediments. has rays and foliate decoration in tympanum. Egg-and-dart frieze and modillion eaves cornice. Mullioned and transomed windows, casements to second storey. Keystones over first floor windows in cornerpieces, and blind balustrading below the second storey. Doorway to John Street has acanthus style decoration to upper panels. Moulded sills and sill band. Vermiculated quoins. Axial stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ3264189076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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