Numbers 10 and 11 With Area Ironwork and Gatepiers to Front Garden
NUMBERS 10 AND 11 WITH AREA IRONWORK AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 10 11, ROCK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218794
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10 and 11 With Area Ironwork and Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 WITH AREA IRONWORK AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 10 11, ROCK PARK
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218794
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10 and 11 With Area Ironwork and Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 WITH AREA IRONWORK AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 10 11, ROCK PARK
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:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 WITH AREA IRONWORK AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 10 11, ROCK PARK
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 33578 86549
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/256 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.10 AND 11 with area ironwork and gatepiers to front garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco, rusticated to ground floor, with Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. 2 storeys with attic and basement, symmetrically-designed with central porch occupying angle between main range and advanced outer gables and 3-window range to each house, the outer bays forming advanced gables. Each has central door with fanlight up steps in projecting porch. Gothick panelled door in No.11, renewed door to No.10. Flanking windows are round-arched 4-pane sashes. Four-pane sash windows to first floor in shouldered architraves and narrow window over the door. Round arched attic window in gable apex. Barge-boards return to pediment the gable. Overhanging eaves carried on brackets. Cast-iron balustrade to steps and basement each side with balusters at angles and scroll decoration. Square gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps, heavily overhanging to No.11. Elevation to Esplanade has canted bay window divided by pilasters to ground floor in gabled outer bays with balcony with cast iron balustrade above (to 1st-floor windows). There is another balustrade between the canted bays. Attic windows in this range are recessed in segmentally arched dormers which break the eaves line. The houses form part of the original Rock Park development which was laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3357886549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389316
- 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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