60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel

1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343458
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:
60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel
Statutory Address:
1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HD
60 & 62 Bolton Road, 2 & 4 Water Street and 1, 3, & 5 The Ginnel, Port Sunlight. Seven houses, 1914, By J. Lomax Simpson
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343458
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1965
List Entry Name:
60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel
Statutory Address 1:
1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HD
Statutory Address 2:
2 and 4, Water Street, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HB
Statutory Address 3:
60 and 62, Bolton Road, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5DW

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HD
Statutory Address:
2 and 4, Water Street, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5HB
Statutory Address:
60 and 62, Bolton Road, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5DW

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:
SJ3400484472

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/10/2020

SJ 38 SW and SJ 3384 SE
6/19 and 14/19

WIRRAL
Port SunlighT
BOLTON ROAD (south side)
Nos. 60 and 62

(Formerly listed under BEBINGTON)

20.12.65

GV
II
Includes Nos.1, 3, and 5 The Ginnel and Nos. 2 and 4 Water Street.

Seven houses. 1914. By J. Lomax Simpson. Roughcast on brick base, tile-hung first floor and half-hipped tile roof. Two storeys, four bays, right return of five bays, left return of four bays. Central bays break forward under gables, end bays canted forward. Centre has brick nogged band. Windows have small-paned casements, centre has half-octagonal two-storey bays, ground floor entablatures, first floor panelled aprons and tile canopy. End bays have four-light canted bay windows, two-light windows above. Entrances have flat canopies, plank doors with leaded lights and flanking lights. Right return has projecting lateral stack to first bay, second gabled bay and third and 4th bays with first floor jettied on posts, gabled first floor windows; fifth bay recessed with gabled projecting end. Some strapwork to second bay, basket brick band to end bay. Left return similar, but without end bay. Five cross-axial stacks. Rear similar.

Listing NGR: SJ3400484472

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
215329
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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