Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513399

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Recommended Books

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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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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)