Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512608

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)