Rathmore
RATHMORE, NOCTURUM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291876
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Rathmore
- Statutory Address:
- RATHMORE, NOCTURUM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291876
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Rathmore
- Statutory Address 1:
- RATHMORE, NOCTURUM LANE
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:
- RATHMORE, NOCTURUM LANE
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 29190 88028
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ28NE NOCTORUM LANE, Noctorum 789-1/3/210 (West side) Rathmore
II
Large house. c1880s. Brick with stone dressings and red plain tiled roof. Simplified Jacobean style. 2 storeys with attic, 3 principal rooms to rear, hall and projecting stair tower to front, the service rooms originally in a separate wing to the north. Entrance to left in gabled porch with ogee outer arch and leaded windows. Paired inner doors with Rococo carved panels in deeply moulded brick arch. Gabled bay behind, with 3-light mulioned window to first floor. Octagonal stair turret rises to the right, with conical roof. Canted bay window with stone mullions lights front hall-way, with three 3-light mullioned windows above lighting upper landing. Advanced gable to right with doorway and 4-light mullioned and transomed windows probably originally part of the service quarters. Adjoining it to the right, 2 hipped roofs over single storey service and coach house range. Garden front of 3 gabled bays. Outer gables have full-height canted bay windows with stone mullions and leaded lights. Half-timbered gable projects above, carried on corbels. Central gable has paired 3-light stone mullioned windows in full height shallow squared bay with central buttress. Half timbered gable projects over coving above. Axial and end wall stacks with clustered polygonal shafts. Inside, much of the original detailing survives, with Jacobean style wood panelling to hall and staircase, C18 style plaster-work and wall panelling in principal rooms.
Listing NGR: SJ2919088028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389263
- 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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