1, CAVENDISH ROAD
1, CAVENDISH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282585
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 1, CAVENDISH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1, CAVENDISH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282585
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 1, CAVENDISH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, CAVENDISH 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:
- 1, CAVENDISH 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 30736 89226
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3089 CAVENDISH ROAD 789-1/7/36 (West side) 28/03/74 No.1
GV II
House, built as Lodge to Birkenhead Park. By Lewis Hornblower and John Robertson. 1843-7. Snecked rubble with Welsh slate roof. Picturesque Tudor style. 2 storeys, L-plan with gable to left and doorway in projecting gabled porch. Square projecting 3-light mullioned window in gable with parapet over, and 2-light window above. Small dormer window over the doorway, and chimney stack with cylindrical and diagonal flues corbelled out alongside. Additional similar stack on side wall of gabled wing. The lodge forms part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton between 1843 and 1847.
Listing NGR: SJ3073689226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389140
- 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.
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