Description

CROSBY

SD39NW WARREN ROAD, Blundellsands
778-1/3/142 (North East side)
Nos.18, 20 AND 22
and Treleaven House

GV II

Block of 4 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 approx. 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: 3 storeys plus a 4-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 1st floor level),
and a red brick Lombard frieze beneath oversailing eaves.
Treleaven House has a gabled porch in the left side with a
polychrome 2-centred arched tympanum over a shouldered
doorway, and Gothick gable coping with a finial, 4-pane sashes
at ground and 1st 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 1st floor
stepped, and coupled sashes at 2nd 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 1st floor with crocketed colonnettes
and squared-off triangular tympani; and at 2nd floor 3 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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548706

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy