11 and 13, Market Street

11 and 13, Market Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5ER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218301
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
11 and 13, Market Street
Statutory Address:
11 and 13, Market Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5ER
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218301
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
11 and 13, Market Street
Statutory Address 1:
11 and 13, Market Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5ER

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
11 and 13, Market Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5ER

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 32646 88788

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2023 to reformat text to current standards.

SJ3288NE
789-1/14/100

BIRKENHEAD
MARKET STREET (South side)
Nos.11 AND 13

28/03/74

GV
II

Pair of shops. c.1842. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, seven-window range. Central inserted early C20 shop front, flanked by door and window with round-arched heads. Paired doors in left-hand section, part-glazed panelled door to right. Upper windows are twelve-pane sashes with moulded stressed architraves, and a segmental pediment over the central window. Moulded sill bands to each floor. Blank panels below modillion eaves cornice. Axial and end wall brick stacks.

(Lister J, Surveyor: Plan of the Township of Birkenhead and Claughton, 1842).

Listing NGR: SJ3264688788

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Legacy System number:
389248
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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