Flats

17-21, BOLTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343435
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:
Flats
Statutory Address:
17-21, BOLTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343435
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:
Flats
Statutory Address 1:
17-21, BOLTON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
FLATS, 1-8, BOLTON ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17-21, BOLTON ROAD
Statutory Address:
FLATS, 1-8, BOLTON 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 33711 84298

Details

BEBINGTON BOLTON ROAD SJ 3384 SE (north side) Port Sunlight 14/13 Nos. 17, 19, 21 and flats 1 to 8 20.12.65 (consec)

G.V. II

3 houses, now flats. 1890. By William Owen. Brick with stone dressings, stone chip roughcast to 1st floor, timber- framed gables and hipped tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 7 bays; gabled 1st and 7th bays, the 7th bay has jettied 1st floor. Decorated bressumers and bargeboards. 2 buttresses piercing eaves and ending in dragons. Ground floor has double-chamfered-mullioned window with transoms and leaded glazing. Most of 3 lights with ovolo mullions, 1st and 7th bays have 4-light canted bay window that to 1st bay of 2 storeys. 1st floor has central 2-light mullioned window laced with similar gabled dormer. Flanking bays have 4- light timber oriels with cusped heads to lights, 2nd and 6th bays have similar 3-light rectangular oriels. 1st bay has 2 windows of 2 lights, one to canted bay, 7th bay has 4-light window. Attic has roof dormers to 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th bays, 3 lights, the inner ones gabled, the others flat.topped; gables have 2-light windows. Entrances have Tudor heads, foliated spandrels, the central one with flat canopy and flanking 2-light window, that to 1st bay in recess with squat column supporting bressumer. 3 cross- axial stacks. Returns have projecting lateral stacks. Rear altered to provide access to flats, similar to above, and gables with stacks, brick quoins and gauged-brick cambered arches to windows; privies.

Listing NGR: SJ3371184298

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Legacy System number:
215322
Legacy System:
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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.

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