The Manor House
The Manor House, Moreton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218309
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- The Manor House, Moreton Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218309
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Manor House, Moreton Road
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:
- The Manor House, Moreton Road
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:
- SJ2663289018
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 May 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ28NE
789-1/3/284
BIRKENHEAD
Upton
MORETON ROAD (East side)
The Manor House
(Formerly Listed as: MORETON ROAD, Upton (East side) Upton Manor)
28/03/74
II
House, now in use as nursing home. c1857. Probably by John Cunningham. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, four-window range, with later taller rear block with attic storey. Central entrance in porch with paired Doric columns, flanking sash windows and full-height bay window. Three-window return elevation with central full height canted bay. Windows throughout in stressed architraves with pedimented hoods to ground floor. Modillion cornice to eaves, angle quoins. Rear block added later but in similar style. Five-window range to garden front, with outer canted bay windows to ground floor with balustraded parapets. 16-pane sash windows above. Ground floor windows have pedimented hoods, and all are in stressed architraves. Attic storey with segmentally-arched dormers breaking the eaves line. Belvedere tower with triple round-arched windows and low pyramidal roof to rear. Axial stacks.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ2663289018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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