Outwood House
OUTWOOD HOUSE, ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE, MANOR HILL, CH43 1UQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292199
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Outwood House
- Statutory Address:
- OUTWOOD HOUSE, ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE, MANOR HILL, CH43 1UQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292199
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Outwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTWOOD HOUSE, ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE, MANOR HILL, CH43 1UQ
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:
- OUTWOOD HOUSE, ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE, MANOR HILL, CH43 1UQ
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 30336 88645
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/06/2016
SJ3088
789-1/10/65
BIRKENHEAD
MANOR HILL
St Anselm's College
Outwood House
(Formerly listed as St Anselm's College, EGERTON ROAD, (southside))
28/03/74
GV
II
House. c1860. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor over tooled plinth with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, Italianate style, square in plan, with central entrance and top-lit stair hall. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front with shallow bowed porch with Tuscan pilasters and balustraded parapet. Cast-iron lamp standards on step each side of doorway. Flanking windows are 4-pane sashes with stressed voussoirs. Pedimented architrave over central window of first floor. Garden front of 3 principal bays, with pedimented central advanced gable. Stressed by paired pilasters at first floor level. Bow window to ground floor and 3-segmentally arched windows with key blocks above. Paired round-arched windows in gable apex. 4-pane sash windows in flanking bay to left, one renewed in orginal opening. Conservatory largely rebuilt against right-hand bay. Side elevations similarly treated. Projecting eaves carried on modillion brackets throughout. Interior contains substantial elements of a late C19 decorative scheme which includes elaborate wall-panelling, plaster-work, fitted furniture light fittings, fireplaces, one with De Morgan tiles, and stained and etched glass in lantern over cantilevered stone staircase with cast iron balusters.
(Plan of Birkenhead and Claughton cum Grange 1858: Mills and Fletcher, Surveyors: 1858).
Listing NGR: SJ3033688645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389188
- 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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