NUMBERS 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET

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:: NUMBERS 16 AND 17 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 16 17, 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:: 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

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 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 389319
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.