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Latitude: 53.3719 / 53°22'18"N
Longitude: -3.0001 / 3°0'0"W
OS Eastings: 333557
OS Northings: 386586
OS Grid: SJ335865
Mapcode National: GBR 7YHF.8Z
Mapcode Global: WH87D.WHKV
Plus Code: 9C5R9XCX+QX
Entry Name: 8 9, Rock Park
Listing Date: 13 March 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282515
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389315
ID on this website: 101282515
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
789-1/12/255 (East side)
13/03/73 Nos.8 AND 9
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco with Welsh slate hipped roof.
2-storeys with attic and basement. 6-window range, divided
into 2 apparently symmetrical units, each with double-pile
plan and central door. Internally, the plans interlock, each
house having 3 principal rooms on each floor. No.8 has two
rooms to rear and one to front and entrance hall to right, and
No.9 with central entrance hall, 2 front rooms and one to
rear. Neo-classical style. 2-panelled doors with overlights in
architraves with triglyph frieze and balustraded cornice.
16-pane sash windows to ground floor, one partly replaced with
casement. Upper windows are 12 and 8-pane sashes, and all
windows have moulded architraves an continuous sill bands.
Modillion eaves cornice, end and axial stacks. Recessed each
side are full-height service bays which incorporate stable and
coach house in the basement of No.9. Elevation to Esplanade
has canted bay windows flanking 8-pane sash windows. Gate
piers to No.9 on street front, squared posts with round-arched
panelled decoration and ribbed caps. The houses form part of
the original Rock Park development laid out by J.Bennison in
1836.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3355786586
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