Numbers 35 to 50 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
30A, HAMILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292148
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 35 to 50 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
- Statutory Address:
- 30A, HAMILTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292148
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 35 to 50 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30A, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 35 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 35-50, HAMILTON SQUARE
- Statutory Address 3:
- NUMBERS 35 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 35-50, HAMILTON SQUARE
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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:
- 30A, HAMILTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 35 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 35-50, HAMILTON SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 35 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 35-50, 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:
- SJ3250088927
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/07/2014 and on 21/07/2017
SJ 3288 NW,
789-1/13/73
BIRKENHEAD,
HAMILTON SQUARE (south side),
Numbers 35-50 (Consecutive) with railings to front
(Formerly listed as Nos.35-51 (Consecutive) with railings to front)
29/07/50
GV
I
Includes: No. 30A HAMILTON STREET.
Terrace of sixteen houses (plus return range to Hamilton Street) now in commercial use forming part of square. 1839-44 to designs of James Gillespie Graham. Three storeys with basement and attic. Each unit a 3-window range with wide entrance hall and single-room double-depth plan, the staircase between the two rooms. Terrace symmetrically planned with outer pavilions and stepped projecting central section of four bays. End pavilions are stressed with round-arched windows and piers to doorcases, of granite in left-hand section. Engaged Doric shafts over first and second storeys carrying entablature with attic storey divided by pilasters above. Entablatures stress first-floor windows. Central bays also stressed by Doric porches, full-height pilasters to upper storeys and entablatures to first-floor windows. The rest have plain moulded architraves to doorcases. 12-pane sash windows, with cast-iron acanthus motif balconies to first floor. Cornice, then attic storey with secondary cornice and blocking course over. Return elevation to Argyle Street similarly detailed, a 5-window range, with lower round arched windows and pilasters articulating the upper storeys. Cast-iron balconies in right-hand three windows of first floor. Return range to Hamilton Street (30A Hamilton Street): a 3-window range with central door and cast-iron balconies to first-floor windows. End wall and ridge stacks. Staircases and other contemporary features survive in several of the houses.
This terrace comprises part of an important example of formal town planning instigated by John Laird in 1825. No. 36 was listed on 24.8.70.
Listing NGR: SJ3250088927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389209
- 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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