NUMBERS 2-14 AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1257370
Date first listed: 26-Mar-1973
Statutory Address: NUMBERS 2-14 AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 2-14, MERSEY VIEW
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Location
Statutory Address: NUMBERS 2-14 AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 2-14, MERSEY VIEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SJ 31267 98769
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History
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Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW MERSEY VIEW
778-1/3/105 (East side)
26/03/73 Nos.2-14 (Even)
and front garden walls and gate
piers
II
Terrace of 7 small houses, with associated front garden walls
and gate piers. Dated 1823 on rainwater head at No.12;
altered. Handmade red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings, wooden bays and porches, slate roof. Double-depth
plan, each house single-fronted; with various back extensions.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, a 14-window range (2 windows each);
with a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. Doorways to
the left (except No.14 which is coupled with No.12), all
square-headed with part-glazed panelled doors which have two
2-centred arched lights with Y-tracery, those at Nos 2 to 10
protected by small wooden trellis porches (differing) with
swept hipped roofs but those at Nos 12 and 14 now in recessed
porches formed by forward extension of the ground floor.
Except for Nos 12 and 14, each has a large wooden 5-sided
canted bay window at ground floor, that at No.10 with original
French windows which have Tudor-arched glazing with margin
panes but now lacks the cornice, that at No.8 with the
original dentilled frieze and moulded cornice but altered
French windows with glazing bars; all the others lack the
cornices and have variously altered glazing with glazing bars,
mostly C20 except that at No.2 which has C19 sashes (24 and 18
panes). In the forward extension at ground floor Nos 12 and 14
have canted bays with altered glazing (uPVC at No.12). At 1st
floor each house has a pair of small rectangular 2-light
windows with raised stone surrounds and 2-centred arched
lights with Y-tracery, those at No.10 sashed but all the
others now casements. Moulded rainwater head at No.12 with
raised lettering "1823". Ridge chimneys. Rear: mostly altered,
but some have hornless sashes.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Small front gardens enclosed by brick walls approx. 1 metre
high with moulded stone coping, each house with a pair of
monolith gate piers which have 2-centred arched tops.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the painter JMW Turner lived in one of these
houses when painting in the district.
Listing NGR: SJ3126798769
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 463946
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.
End of official listing