Numbers 140 and 142 With Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
NUMBERS 140 AND 142 WITH RAILINGS, WALL AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT, WHETSTONE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219043
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 140 and 142 With Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 140 AND 142 WITH RAILINGS, WALL AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT, WHETSTONE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219043
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 140 and 142 With Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 140 AND 142 WITH RAILINGS, WALL AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT, WHETSTONE LANE
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 140 AND 142 WITH RAILINGS, WALL AND GATEPIERS TO FRONT, WHETSTONE LANE
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 31903 88050
Details
SJ3188
789-1/11/158
BIRKENHEAD
WHETSTONE LANE (South West side)
Nos.140 and 142 with railings, wall and gatepiers to front
28/03/74
GV
II
Pair of houses. c1840-50. Probably by Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with basement. Each house a 2-unit plan with central entrance. Symmetrical 6-window range. Rusticated ashlar to ground floor. Doorways up steps with cast-iron spear head railings. Deep-fielded 8-panelled doors and rectangular overlight in stressed architraves with entablature. Flanking tripartite sash windows with decorative cast iron colonettes, the panes divided only horizontally. Rosette frieze over ground floor. 12-pane sashes in architraves with stressed entablatures to first floor. Recessed panelled aprons below all windows. Enriched cornice and modillions to eaves. Gable and axial stacks. Low stone wall with gate piers to front of properties.
Listing NGR: SJ3190388050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389375
- 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.
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