38-50, ARGYLE STREET
38-50, ARGYLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292342
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 38-50, ARGYLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 38-50, ARGYLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292342
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 38-50, ARGYLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38-50, ARGYLE STREET
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:
- 38-50, ARGYLE STREET
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:
- SJ3238888895
Details
SJ3288NW
789-1/13/6
BIRKENHEAD
ARGYLE STREET
(North West side)
Nos.38-50 (Even)
GV
II
Terrace of 7 shops, built as a single development c1850. Brick
with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 12-window range. Stone angle
quoins and other dressings. Late C19 shop fronts, with later
alterations retaining fascia carried on heavy console
brackets. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with flat-arched
gauged brick heads (some renewed in original openings). Stone
sill bands and moulded eaves cornice. Axial stacks. 5-bay
return elevation to Lorn Street with 4 blocked round arched
windows, one formerly a doorway. Angle at junction curved and
slightly recessed. Renewed ridge stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ3238888895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389099
- 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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