Number 12 With Gatepiers and Low Wall to Front Garden

NUMBER 12 WITH GATEPIERS AND LOW WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, 12, ROCK LANE EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218771
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Number 12 With Gatepiers and Low Wall to Front Garden
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 12 WITH GATEPIERS AND LOW WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, 12, ROCK LANE EAST

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218771
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Number 12 With Gatepiers and Low Wall to Front Garden
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 12 WITH GATEPIERS AND LOW WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, 12, ROCK LANE EAST

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 12 WITH GATEPIERS AND LOW WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, 12, ROCK LANE EAST

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 33373 86608

Details

SJ3386
789-1/12/248

BIRKENHEAD
Rock Ferry
ROCK LANE EAST, (West side)
No.12 with gatepiers and low wall to front garden

13/03/73

GV
II
House. c1840. Stucco with Welsh slate roof. Gothick style, 2 storeys, symmetrical 3 bays with central slightly advanced narrow gable with fretted bargeboards. Part-glazed door with traceried panels and overlight and heavy hood mould over. Flanking windows on each floor are 12-pane sashes with hood moulds. French doors and renewed balcony over the door. Full-height angle pilasters. Continuous sill band to first floor. Fretted bargeboards with pendants in return gables, with steeply arched window in gable apex and sash and blank windows below. Octagonal gate piers to street with traceried panels and stepped pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SJ3337386608

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
389308
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.

Ordnance survey map of Number 12 With Gatepiers and Low Wall to Front Garden

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