Numbers 16 and 17 With Gatepiers to Street
NUMBERS 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 16 17, ROCK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282516
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 16 and 17 With Gatepiers to Street
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 16 17, ROCK PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282516
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 16 and 17 With Gatepiers to Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 16 17, 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 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 16 17, 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 33658 86433
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/259 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.16 AND 17 with gatepiers to street
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Neo-classical style, 2 storeys, each house a 3-window range double-pile plan symmetrically-designed with outer hipped gabled wings. Each house has central entrance in full-height pyramidal roofed porch to angle formed by wing. 6-panelled door in moulded stone architrave with narrow window over. 12-pane sashes flank this on each floor, the lower window to the right in 16 cut by added lean-to verandah. Overhanging eaves, end wall stacks. Rear elevation follows similar configuration with outer hipped gabled wings with canted bays to ground floor, and a balcony carried on cast-iron columns and stone brackets with ornate wrought iron railings across the central range. Paired gate piers to street front with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. The house forms part of the original Rock Park development laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3365886433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389319
- 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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