The Tower
THE TOWER, 2, PARKGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387707
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWER, 2, PARKGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387707
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWER, 2, PARKGATE 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:
- THE TOWER, 2, PARKGATE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 29108 77526
Details
NESTON
SJ2977 PARKGATE ROAD, Neston Town 794-1/6/75 (North side) No.2 The Tower
GV II
Tower and small shop. Late C19. Accrington red brick with bands of terracotta mouldings, sill and impost strings of terracotta blocks; red tile roof, part with ridge cresting. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 1-bay front set back to left of 4-storey tower. Tower arch is flanked by splayed walls on ground floor. Upper floors are corbelled out above arch and defined by bands of floral mouldings, continued at first floor across bay to left. Within semicircular tower arch is 4-panel half glazed shop door. First floor of tower has single pair of round-headed 1/1 sash windows at front; on the second floor, two faces have an oculus framed in terracotta; on third floor, two single round-headed louvred lights, repeated on all faces. Floral eaves band beneath pierced parapet encrusted with terracotta rises at each corner to form a square pinnacle. Bay to left has semicircular headed multi-pane shop window on ground floor: on first floor, two round-headed 1/1 sash windows: at eaves level, a lombardic frieze. Sill and impost strings, arched over window heads, run across both fronts and encircle tower. INTERIOR: stairs with winders to first floor, ladders to upper floors. Set in the left wall there is a tablet dated 1703 which plainly dates the adjoining property and was exposed prior to the construction of the tower and shop.
Listing NGR: SJ2911277532
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475694
- 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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