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SD39NW
778-1/3/142

CROSBY
WARREN ROAD (north east side)
Nos.18, 20 and 22 and Treleaven House, 18 Blundellsands Road West

(formerly listed as Nos.18, 20 and 22 and Treleaven House, WARREN ROAD)

GV
II
Block of four houses set back at junction with Blundellsands Road. Dated 1867 on monogram plaque of Treleaven House; slightly altered. Red brick with polychrome bands and white painted sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched hipped slate roofs. Eclectic High Victorian style.

PLAN: double-depth plan on approximately north-west/south-east axis facing south-west, Nos 20 and 22 single-fronted, and Treleaven House forming a crosswing at the left end with a rectangular tower at its left front corner.

EXTERIOR: three storeys plus a four storey tower to Treleaven House, 1:1+2+2+3 windows, with polychrome sillbands and impost bands of blue and yellow brick (most elaborate at first floor level), and a red brick Lombard frieze beneath oversailing eaves.

Treleaven House has a gabled porch in the left side with a polychrome two-centred arched tympanum over a shouldered doorway, and Gothick gable coping with a finial, four-pane sashes at ground and first floor levels of this side mostly coupled and mostly with arched polychrome tympani; a tower with coupled sashes at these levels of this side, those at ground floor with a rocketed colonnette, but otherwise one-light sashes, and a steep saddle-back roof swept over the eaves; and in the west front tripartite sashes to the main floors, those at ground floor with crocketed colonnettes, those at first floor stepped, and coupled sashes at second floor under a large blank arch with a carved tympanum and polychrome archband rising into a dormer with prominently-oversailing and bracketed
hipped roof.

Nos 18-22 to the right have a continuous monopitched pentice roof protecting doorways and canted bay windows at ground floor; coupled sashes at first floor with crocketed colonnettes and squared-off triangular tympani; and at second floor three pairs of short sashes breaking the eaves, with coupled steeply-pitched and prominently-oversailing swept slate roofs on brackets, and one similar to the right. Corniced ridge chimneys (that to No.22 cut down). Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3096399340

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