Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ28NE NOCTORUM LANE, Noctorum
789-1/3/210 (West side)
Rathmore

II

Large house. c1880s. Brick with stone dressings and red plain
tiled roof. Simplified Jacobean style. 2 storeys with attic, 3
principal rooms to rear, hall and projecting stair tower to
front, the service rooms originally in a separate wing to the
north. Entrance to left in gabled porch with ogee outer arch
and leaded windows. Paired inner doors with Rococo carved
panels in deeply moulded brick arch. Gabled bay behind, with
3-light mulioned window to first floor. Octagonal stair turret
rises to the right, with conical roof. Canted bay window with
stone mullions lights front hall-way, with three 3-light
mullioned windows above lighting upper landing. Advanced gable
to right with doorway and 4-light mullioned and transomed
windows probably originally part of the service quarters.
Adjoining it to the right, 2 hipped roofs over single storey
service and coach house range. Garden front of 3 gabled bays.
Outer gables have full-height canted bay windows with stone
mullions and leaded lights. Half-timbered gable projects
above, carried on corbels. Central gable has paired 3-light
stone mullioned windows in full height shallow squared bay
with central buttress. Half timbered gable projects over
coving above. Axial and end wall stacks with clustered
polygonal shafts. Inside, much of the original detailing
survives, with Jacobean style wood panelling to hall and
staircase, C18 style plaster-work and wall panelling in
principal rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ2919088028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579947

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)