56, HAMILTON STREET
56, HAMILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292130
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, HAMILTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292130
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, HAMILTON STREET
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:
- 56, HAMILTON STREET
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 32503 88797
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3288NE HAMILTON STREET 789-1/14/85 (North West side) No.56 Hamilton House
GV II
Commercial premises. Dated 1907. Brick with rusticated stone basement storey and dressings and Welsh slate roof. Free classical style. 3 storeys. Asymmetrical but regular 4-window range with entrance to right. Round-arched door in pedimented case with Doric columns on high bases, and 3 segmentally-arched windows with stressed voussoirs and key blocks. Additional narrow side doorway to right of principal entrance with date in shield over. Cornice over ground floor; stone architraves to 1st- floor sash windows with 6-panes in upper lights. Shallow segmental moulding to architraves of upper windows. Brackets to modillion eaves cornice. Coped gables with banded end wall stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ3250388797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389223
- 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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