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3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Birkenhead, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3915 / 53°23'29"N

Longitude: -3.014 / 3°0'50"W

OS Eastings: 332660

OS Northings: 388778

OS Grid: SJ326887

Mapcode National: GBR 7YD6.8Y

Mapcode Global: WH87D.N0YT

Plus Code: 9C5R9XRP+J9

Entry Name: 3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1974

Last Amended: 10 August 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1201556

English Heritage Legacy ID: 389247

ID on this website: 101201556

Location: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41

County: Wirral

Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Birkenhead

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ the King

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


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SJ3288NE
789-1/14/99

BIRKENHEAD,
MARKET STREET (South side),
Nos. 3-9 (Odd)

28/03/74

GV
II

Includes: Nos. 90 AND 92 CHESTER STREET.

Group of four shops at time of listing, incorporating the former Albion Hotel. c.1837. Albion Hotel by Edward Welch. Ashlar-faced with roof now missing but formerly Welsh slate. Three storeys, five-window range, unequally spaced. Three early C20 shop fronts with pilasters each side and beaded moulding over fascia, but parts of fascia missing. Upper window spaces now all missing cases, but probably formerly twelve-pane sashes. Moulded cornice. Pedimented return to Chester Street, a three-window range with stressed architraves, and the stone brackets for a balcony now missing. Central door and flanking windows in rusticated basement storey now largely blocked - only the stressed voussoirs are visible. Late C19 shop front with canted bay to left.

(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3266088778

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