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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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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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 389208
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.