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Latitude: 53.3727 / 53°22'21"N
Longitude: -3.0012 / 3°0'4"W
OS Eastings: 333486
OS Northings: 386676
OS Grid: SJ334866
Mapcode National: GBR 7YHF.1P
Mapcode Global: WH87D.WH17
Plus Code: 9C5R9XFX+3G
Entry Name: Numbers 1 and 2 with Walling and Area Railings, and Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
Listing Date: 13 March 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201759
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389311
ID on this website: 101201759
Location: Rock Park, Wirral, Merseyside, CH42
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Rock Ferry
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Rock Ferry St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
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BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry
789-1/12/251 (East side)
13/03/73 Nos.1 AND 2
with walling and area railings, and
railings, wall and gatepiers to
front
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with rusticated quoins and
Welsh slate hipped roof. 2 storeys with basement.
Symmetrically-planned, each with side entrance and double-pile
2-unit plan. Enriched classical style. Projecting
single-storey porches each side with panelled doors and
architrave with console brackets and parapet. Front: 4-window
range (originally symmetrical). Lower windows are round arched
sashes (renewed and replaced by bow window in No.2) in
stressed architraves. Renewed spear head railings to basement.
Upper windows are 8-pane sashes also renewed in shouldered
architraves with key stone and entablature over. Stone carved
frieze at eaves level, gable and axial stacks. River frontage
to east enriched with decorative stone-work: 8-pane sash
windows with segmental pediments carried on brackets are
flanked by blind niches to suggest Venetian tripartite windows
in upper storey. Tripartite sashes with key-blocks and stone
balconies to first floor (replaced in No.2). Similar
tripartite windows to ground floor. Gate piers on street
elevation, square piers with moulded caps (one missing). The
houses form part of the Rock Park development which was laid
out in 1836-7 by Jonathan Bennison.
Listing NGR: SJ3348686676
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