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Latitude: 53.3849 / 53°23'5"N
Longitude: -3.0253 / 3°1'30"W
OS Eastings: 331903
OS Northings: 388050
OS Grid: SJ319880
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y99.VB
Mapcode Global: WH87D.H5MX
Plus Code: 9C5R9XMF+XV
Entry Name: Numbers 140 and 142 with Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219043
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389375
ID on this website: 101219043
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: Tranmere St Catherine
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Building
SJ3188
789-1/11/158
BIRKENHEAD
WHETSTONE LANE (South West side)
Nos.140 and 142 with railings, wall and gatepiers to front
28/03/74
GV
II
Pair of houses. c1840-50. Probably by Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with basement. Each house a 2-unit plan with central entrance. Symmetrical 6-window range. Rusticated ashlar to ground floor. Doorways up steps with cast-iron spear head railings. Deep-fielded 8-panelled doors and rectangular overlight in stressed architraves with entablature. Flanking tripartite sash windows with decorative cast iron colonettes, the panes divided only horizontally. Rosette frieze over ground floor. 12-pane sashes in architraves with stressed entablatures to first floor. Recessed panelled aprons below all windows. Enriched cornice and modillions to eaves. Gable and axial stacks. Low stone wall with gate piers to front of properties.
Listing NGR: SJ3190388050
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