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Latitude: 53.3863 / 53°23'10"N
Longitude: -3.0249 / 3°1'29"W
OS Eastings: 331931
OS Northings: 388211
OS Grid: SJ319882
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y98.XT
Mapcode Global: WH87D.H4TS
Plus Code: 9C5R9XPG+G2
Entry Name: 40, Clifton Road
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Last Amended: 10 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217922
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389167
ID on this website: 101217922
Location: Tranmere, 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: Tranmere St Catherine
Church of England Diocese: Chester
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SJ3188
789-1/11/56
BIRKENHEAD
CLIFTON ROAD (West side)
No.40
(Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON ROAD (West side) Nos.38 AND 40)
28/03/74
II
House, formerly one of a pair, the other now demolished. c1840. By Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor, with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, classical style of two principal rooms, double-depth plan and side entrance. Street front: outer (left-hand) block advanced with twelve-pane sash window with margin lights flanked by round-arched niches set in segmental bay to ground floor, sixteen-pane sash window with fanlight and recessed stone panel over to first floor, flanked by pilasters. Cornice and blocking course above. Inner (right-hand) bay to main street front has tripartite sash window to ground floor, and twelve-pane sash window in round-arched architrave with entablature and cast-iron balcony above. Cornice and blocking course. Entrance elevation of three bays divided by six pilasters. Central doorway with architrave and stressed entablature carrying a carved lion. Flanking sash windows with stressed voussoirs and three upper twelve-pane sash windows, all with margin lights. Balustraded parapet with raised central blocking. The house forms part of the original development of Clifton Park, laid out by Scott as a villa estate.
Listing NGR: SJ3193188211
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