Numbers 14 and 15 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
NUMBERS 14 AND 15 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 14 15, ROCK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291789
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 14 and 15 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 14 AND 15 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 14 15, ROCK PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291789
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 14 and 15 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 14 AND 15 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 14 15, ROCK PARK
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:
- NUMBERS 14 AND 15 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 14 15, 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 33636 86462
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/258 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.14 AND 15 with gatepiers to front garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco, rusticated to ground floor with Welsh slate roof. Italianate style, 2 storeys with attic and basement, 2-unit double-pile plan. Symmetrically-designed with central entrance to each house in porch to angle formed by the outer advanced gabled wings. Round-arched in single-storey porches flanked by 4-pane round-arched sash windows. Cast-iron balustrade to basement area. Upper windows are also 4-pane sashes in shouldered architraves. All windows renewed in original openings to No.14. Round arched attic window in apex of gabled outer wing. Eaves overhang on brackets, and bargeboards return to pediment the gable. End wall and axial stacks. No.14 has further advanced hipped gable to left with tripartite sash window to ground floor and 4-pane sash window above. Elevation to Esplanade has 2-storeyed canted bay window in outer gable with parapet, and balcony to first floor in central range. Cast-iron balustrade and canopy carried on cast iron columns survives to No.14 only. Dormer window recessed in segmental pediment which cuts the eaves cornice in central range. End wall and axial stacks. Paired square gate piers to street with shallow pyramidal caps. The houses form part of the original development of Rock Park, laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3363686462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389318
- 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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