59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282539
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282539
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
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:
- 59, SHREWSBURY ROAD
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 30002 88253
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 SHREWSBURY ROAD, Oxton 789-1/10/228 (West side) 28/03/74 No.59
II
House. c1884. By George Smith of Chester. Brick with some mock timbering and plain tiled roof. Elizabethan style. 2-storeyed, 3 principal bays with central entrance, and recessed service wing to right. Central gabled bay of 3 storeys advanced with panelled and part-glazed 4-centred arched door in porch with timberwork carried on brick piers. 5-light mullioned and transomed window spans the gable above. 4-light mullioned window projecting on corbels in gable apex. Right-hand bay has triple round-arched moulded brick mullions to ground floor and timbered upper storey with casement window. Recessed range beyond has metal framed casement inserted to ground floor, and 4-light round arched moulded brick mullioned window above. Diaper work band below eaves. Crow stepped side gable. Left-hand bay has triple ogee arched moulded brick mullioned window with stained glass margin lights to ground floor, and 4-light mullioned window above. Return elevation a crow stepped gable with 2-light moulded brick ogee mullioned window to ground floor, 3-light windows above, but not aligning. Moulded brick sill bands to each floor. Recessed beyond, large single storey music room. Moulded brick axial stacks. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3000288253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389347
- 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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