12 and 14, Market Street and 75, Albion Street
12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282605
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 12 and 14, Market Street and 75, Albion Street
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282605
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 12 and 14, Market Street and 75, Albion Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 2:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 3:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 4:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 5:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 6:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 7:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 8:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address 9:
- 75, ALBION STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5LS
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:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 14, MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5ER
- Statutory Address:
- 75, ALBION STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 5LS
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 32631 88817
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/06/2015
SJ3288NE
789-1/14/104
BIRKENHEAD
MARKET STREET (West side)
Nos. 12 and 14, and 75 Albion Street
(Formerly listed as No.12 and The Glass Barrel Public House, MARKET STREET)
GV
II
Former public house and shop. c1860 remodelling of an earlier C19 building. Brick with glazed coloured tiles to ground floor and Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 6-window range to Albion Street, former entrance across angle, and 4-window return range to Market Street. Doorway towards centre of Albion Street elevation, with overlight cut by segmentally-arched projecting hood. Flanking tripartite and squared fixed-light windows. Divided into bays by tiled pilasters, with recessed panels beneath the windows. Similar doorway and window in Market Street elevation. 1st-floor windows are sashes with 6-pane upper lights and shallow plastered pedimented heads. Moulded overhanging cornice and end wall stacks. Shop to right on Market Street forms part of the same build, with inserted shop door and window beneath original fascia with console brackets,and upper sash windows with 6-pane upper lights and shallow pedimented heads.
Listing NGR: SJ3263188817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389249
- 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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