Bidston Hall
BIDSTON HALL, ELEANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292202
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bidston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BIDSTON HALL, ELEANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292202
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bidston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDSTON HALL, ELEANOR ROAD
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:
- BIDSTON HALL, ELEANOR ROAD
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 28546 90207
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ2890 ELEANOR ROAD, Bidston 789-1/6/164 (East side) 29/07/50 Bidston Hall
GV II*
Large house. Probably a late C16-early C17 re-building of an earlier structure, the remodelling itself in at least two phases. Coursed and squared stone with plain slate roofs. Hall and two cross wing plan, modified by C19 renewal of roofs to form two parallel longitudinal gables. Symmetrical facade, with central two-storey semi-circular bowed porch with segmentally-arched entrance with chamfered jambs to architrave and stressed enriched voussoirs. Continuous band of mullioned windows at first floor. Scallopped parapet with low-relief motifs. Flanking mullioned windows of 3- and 4 lights with plain string course over. Rear elevation also symmetrical with original advanced outer gables each with 4-light mullioned windows linked by 4-bay loggia to ground floor, the arcade of semi-circular arches carried on columns with marked entasis. 4-light mullioned windows above. Doorway and flanking windows recessed within, possibly resited. Mullions throughout are ovolo moulded. Interior has central hall with rear wall stack flanked by original service end to left, the present kitchen in the parlour wing to the right. 4-centred arched fire-places in hall and parlour, and some upstairs rooms. 4-centred arched lintels to original doors between principal lower rooms. Exposed stone work with rich collection of masons' marks. Stone staircase towards the rear. Timber framed partition walls upstairs, and traces of earlier layout before addition of loggia infilling between the two wings. The property belonged to the earls of Derby from the C14 until c1652, and the present house was probably built by the 4th earl.
Listing NGR: SJ2854690207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389190
- 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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