CASTELLATED LODGE

CASTELLATED LODGE, 78, PARK ROAD WEST

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282510
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: CASTELLATED LODGE
Statutory Address:: CASTELLATED LODGE, 78, PARK ROAD WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282510
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: CASTELLATED LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: CASTELLATED LODGE, 78, PARK ROAD WEST

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CASTELLATED LODGE, 78, PARK ROAD WEST

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 30046 89236

Details

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3089 PARK ROAD WEST 789-1/7/135 (North East side) 28/03/74 No.78 Castellated Lodge (Formerly Listed as: BIRKENHEAD PARK Entrance gateway consisting of Castellated Lodge and 5 gatepiers)

GV II

Lodge to Birkenhead Park. c1843-47. By Lewis Hornblower and John Robertson under the direction of Sir Joseph Paxton. Coursed and squared rubble with leaded roof. 2 storeys, asymmetrical plan comprised of a series of towers. Main tower advanced to left, with single storey flat roofed porch in angle, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor. Angle buttresses and embattled projecting parapet. Similar tower recessed to right, and octagonal tower to rear. Forms part of the original development of Birkenhead Park.

Listing NGR: SJ3004689236

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Legacy System number:: 389292
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 28 Merseyside,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.