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Latitude: 53.3716 / 53°22'17"N
Longitude: -2.9998 / 2°59'59"W
OS Eastings: 333578
OS Northings: 386549
OS Grid: SJ335865
Mapcode National: GBR 7YHG.C2
Mapcode Global: WH87D.WJQ3
Plus Code: 9C5V92C2+J3
Entry Name: Numbers 10 and 11 with Area Ironwork and Gatepiers to Front Garden
Listing Date: 13 March 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218794
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389316
ID on this website: 101218794
Location: Rock Park, Wirral, Merseyside, CH42
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Rock Ferry
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Rock Ferry St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
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BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry
789-1/12/256 (East side)
13/03/73 Nos.10 AND 11
with area ironwork and gatepiers to
front garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco, rusticated to ground floor,
with Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. 2 storeys with attic
and basement, symmetrically-designed with central porch
occupying angle between main range and advanced outer gables
and 3-window range to each house, the outer bays forming
advanced gables. Each has central door with fanlight up steps
in projecting porch. Gothick panelled door in No.11, renewed
door to No.10. Flanking windows are round-arched 4-pane
sashes. Four-pane sash windows to first floor in shouldered
architraves and narrow window over the door. Round arched
attic window in gable apex. Barge-boards return to pediment
the gable. Overhanging eaves carried on brackets. Cast-iron
balustrade to steps and basement each side with balusters at
angles and scroll decoration. Square gate piers with shallow
pyramidal caps, heavily overhanging to No.11. Elevation to
Esplanade has canted bay window divided by pilasters to ground
floor in gabled outer bays with balcony with cast iron
balustrade above (to 1st-floor windows). There is another
balustrade between the canted bays. Attic windows in this
range are recessed in segmentally arched dormers which break
the eaves line. The houses form part of the original Rock Park
development which was laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3357886549
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