Numbers 19 to 34 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
NUMBERS 19 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 19-34, HAMILTON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292180
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 19 to 34 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 19 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 19-34, HAMILTON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292180
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 19 to 34 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 19 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 19-34, HAMILTON SQUARE
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 19 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, 19-34, 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:
- SJ 32450 89045
Details
SJ 3289,
789-1/9/72
BIRKENHEAD,
HAMILTON SQUARE (north-west side),
Nos. 19-34 (consecutive) with railings to front
29/07/50
GV
I
Terrace of sixteen units, forming NW range of square. 1839-1844. By
James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced over brick with Welsh
slate roofs. Three storeys with attic and basement. Each unit a
three-window range with wide entrance hall and single-room
double-depth plan with staircase between the two rooms.
Terrace symmetrically designed with end pavilions projecting,
and stepped projecting central section of four bays. Rusticated
basement storey throughout. Outer pavilions stressed with
arched windows flanking porches with Doric columns. Pavilions
and central bays also stressed with giant Doric order of
attached columns with entablature. Others have 4-panelled
doors in stressed architraves and 12-pane sash windows with
stressed voussoirs to ground floor. Upper windows all 12-pane
sashes with cast-iron acanthus motif balconies to first floor,
and entablatures used to emphasise central bays. Spear-head
railings to basement area, and sphinx boot scrapers on steps.
3-bay return elevations to Cleveland Street and Price Street
with central door in architrave with engaged Doric shafts.
Large axial stacks. This terrace comprises part of the
Hamilton Square development, an important example of formal
town planning instigated by John Laird in 1825. Nos. 23 & 24
were listed on 24.08.70.
Listing NGR: SJ3245089045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389208
- 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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