Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3088 DEVONSHIRE ROAD, Claughton 789-1/10/195 (North side) 28/03/74 No.59 Aston Lodge

GV II

House. c1840. Probably by Charles Reed. Stucco with Welsh slate roof with ridge cresting. Tudor gothic style. 2 storeys, symmetrically designed entrance front of 3 gabled bays with central entrance. Advanced central gable with octagonal angle turrets and door recessed in 4-centred archway with stilted arched window over. Right-hand bay has mullioned windows on each floor with latticed lights. Left-hand gable has projecting canted bay window to ground floor and 2-light traceried arched window above. Return elevation to north has late C19 polygonal conservatory added to canted bay window to ground floor of left-hand gable with stilted arched wood mullioned and transomed window over, the gable stressed by string course. Right-hand bay has 4-light mullioned window to ground floor and traceried casement above in gabled dormer with moulded kneelers. The house is one of the earliest buildings in the development of Claughton, laid out by Reed for Sir William Jackson in the early 1840's.

Listing NGR: SJ3066088326

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings