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47 49, Clifton Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Birkenhead, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3853 / 53°23'7"N

Longitude: -3.0249 / 3°1'29"W

OS Eastings: 331927

OS Northings: 388095

OS Grid: SJ319880

Mapcode National: GBR 7Y99.X5

Mapcode Global: WH87D.H5SL

Plus Code: 9C5R9XPG+42

Entry Name: 47 49, Clifton Road

Listing Date: 28 March 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1217924

English Heritage Legacy ID: 389169

ID on this website: 101217924

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: Birkenhead Christ the King

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


BIRKENHEAD

SJ3188 CLIFTON ROAD 789-1/11/58 (East side) 28/03/74 Nos.47 AND 49

GV II

Pair of houses, now in institutional use. c1843. Walter Scott. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys over basement taking account of sloping site. North elevation of 5 bays. 6-pane sash windows with margin lights to first floor and projecting fretted stone-work balcony carried on square columns which form divisions for 2-tripartite sash bay windows at ground floor level. Cast-iron acanthus decoration to ground floor balcony. Secondary door in plain architrave in side elevation. Heavy overhang to roof carried on moulded wood brackets. Main entrance in centre of 3 bay upper elevation. Doric porch with paired shafts and balustraded parapet flanked by segmentally arched tripartite sashes with ornate cast-iron colonettes, stressed quoins and voussoirs. End wall stacks. Clifton Park was laid out as a planned villa estate.

Listing NGR: SJ3192788095

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