NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21

NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21, 20 21, ROCK PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218814
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21, 20 21, ROCK PARK

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Date:: 2007-03-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218814
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21, 20 21, ROCK PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: NUMBERS 20 AND 21 WITH GATEPIERS TO NUMBER 21, 20 21, 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 33635 86366

Details

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SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/262 (West side) 13/03/73 Nos.20 AND 21 with gatepiers to No.21 (Formerly Listed as: ROCK PARK (South side) Nos.20 AND 29)

GV II

Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco rusticated to ground floor with Welsh slate roof. Neo-classical style, 2 storeys, symmetrically-designed, each house a 2-window range double-pile plan with side entrance. Slightly advanced outer bays with canted bay window to ground floor and 12-pane sash above in moulded architrave. Central bays have tripartite sash windows to ground floor, and 12-pane sash window above in moulded architrave with panelled apron and double string course. Angle quoins, eaves cornice. Return elevations have central round arched doorway with entablature carried on paired console brackets. All windows in No.21 have been lowered, and mouldings and rustication removed; it is included for group value. No.20 has square gate piers with stepped pyramidal cap and cast iron gates with acanthus motif. The houses form part of the original development of Rock Park, laid out in 1836 by Jonathan Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3363586366

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Legacy System number:: 389322
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

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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.