NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT

NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 51-57, HAMILTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1282616
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 51-57, HAMILTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1282616
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 51-57, HAMILTON SQUARE

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 51 TO 57 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 51-57, HAMILTON SQUARE

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:: SJ3260488927

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/07/2014.

SJ 3288 NE, 789-1/14/74

BIRKENHEAD, HAMILTON SQUARE (east side), Numbers 51-57 (consecutive) with railings to front

(Formerly listed as Nos.52-57 (Consecutive) with railings to front)

29/07/50

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Terrace of six houses, now in commercial use. c1844, to a design by James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor, with hipped Welsh slate roof and axial stacks. Four storeys with basement. 19-window range arranged 3-13-3. Each unit has two round-arched windows to ground floor, and doorway to right. Architraves with engaged Doric pilasters to doors in outer bays, Doric porches in central range. Outer bays are stressed by engaged Doric shafts across first and second storeys, with plain pilasters articulating the attic storey. 12-pane sash windows, with moulded architraves in the central range, and cast-iron balconies with acanthus motif to first floor (some missing in right hand outer bays). Cornice and attic storey over with 9-pane sash windows, many now replaced. Secondary cornice and blocking course over. Return elevation each side of three bays with central door in portico. Cast-iron railings to basement area, and sphinx-like cast-iron foot scrapers. Staircases and other contemporary features survive in several of the houses.

This terrace comprises part of Hamilton Square, an important example of formal planning instigated by John Laird in 1825.

Listing NGR: SJ3260488927

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Legacy System number:: 389210
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.