Duke of York Cottages

1-19, Duke of York Cottages, Wirral, CH62 5DD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300253
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:: Duke of York Cottages
Statutory Address:: 1-19, Duke of York Cottages, Wirral, CH62 5DD

Duke of York Cottages 1 to 19 (consecutive) & laundry, Port Sunlight. Terrace of houses & laundry, by J. Lomax Simpson. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300253
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:: Duke of York Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: 1-19, Duke of York Cottages, Wirral, CH62 5DD

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

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-19, Duke of York Cottages, Wirral, CH62 5DD

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:: SJ3343884911

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 October 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

SJ 3384 NW 12/99

BEBINGTON Port Sunlight No 1-19 Duke of York Cottages

(Formerly listed as GREENDALE ROAD (east side) Port Sunlight Duke of York Cottages 1 to 19 (consec) and laundry)

20.12.65

G.V. II

Terrace of 19 houses, number 19 being formerly a laundry. 1934. By J. Lomax Simpson. Plaster with stone dressings, stone, brick with stone dressings, timber-framing; stone slate roof. Crescents to Greendale Road and Primrose Hill, with short return to Brook Street. Two storeys, 19 bays to Greendale Road and six bays to Primrose Hill with three-bay canted ends.

Greendale Road facade plaster with stone dressings with three bays at each end of stone, projecting, with drip mould over ground floor, two inner bays are gabled. Windows have double-chamfered-mullioned windows, of two and three leaded lights, some with elliptical heads. First floor has six bays with gablets.

Entrances have decorated lintels, some with flat canopies, two with lean-to porches; plank doors. Six cross-axial stacks. Primrose Hill facade of brick with stone dressings, plaster band and coping. Ground floor has canopy, two bays have weatherboarded gablets. Windows have small-paned casements. Ground floor has end three-light windows and canted and rectangular bay windows to centre. First floor has three-light windows, two to centre are of four-lights. Entrances have plank doors with small-paned lights. Timber-framed canted ends with central projecting gabled bay with jettied first floor and gable. Windows of two and three lights with leaded glazing. Canted bays have canted recesses. Brook Street facade similar to that to Primrose Hill, four bays in with one storey, three bay laundry to right. 15 brick stacks. Rear brick, roughcast first floor, small-paned casements.

Listing NGR: SJ3343884911

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Legacy System number:: 215423
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.