Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3188 PARK ROAD SOUTH
789-1/11/133 (North side)
28/03/74 Gothic Lodge, gate piers and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRKENHEAD PARK
Entrance gateway consisting of
Gothic Lodge, and 5 gatepiers)

GV II

Lodge to Birkenhead Park. c1843-47. By Lewis Hornblower and
John Robertson for Sir Joseph Paxton. Coursed and squared
sandstone with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style, 2 storeys with
main range facing street, and 2 wings forming an L-plan range
behind. Central entrance to symmetrical 3-window main range
with 2-centred arched doorway in gabled porch, flanked by
stone mullioned windows in ashlar dressed architraves, and 3
gabled dormer windows above. Canted bay on right-hand gable
wall, with parapet, and added canted bay to left gable. Rear
octagonal clustered stacks. Gate piers and railings to garden,
stone gate piers with incised panels and shallow pyramidal
caps. Cast-iron railings with spear head principal posts at
intervals, with scrolled braces. Forms part of the original
development of Birkenhead Park.

Listing NGR: SJ3119588670

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497454

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