Description

SJ 3289,
789-1/9/72

BIRKENHEAD,
HAMILTON SQUARE (north-west side),
Nos. 19-34 (consecutive) with railings to front

29/07/50

GV

I

Terrace of sixteen units, forming NW range of square. 1839-1844. By
James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced over brick with Welsh
slate roofs. Three storeys with attic and basement. Each unit a
three-window range with wide entrance hall and single-room
double-depth plan with staircase between the two rooms.
Terrace symmetrically designed with end pavilions projecting,
and stepped projecting central section of four bays. Rusticated
basement storey throughout. Outer pavilions stressed with
arched windows flanking porches with Doric columns. Pavilions
and central bays also stressed with giant Doric order of
attached columns with entablature. Others have 4-panelled
doors in stressed architraves and 12-pane sash windows with
stressed voussoirs to ground floor. Upper windows all 12-pane
sashes with cast-iron acanthus motif balconies to first floor,
and entablatures used to emphasise central bays. Spear-head
railings to basement area, and sphinx boot scrapers on steps.
3-bay return elevations to Cleveland Street and Price Street
with central door in architrave with engaged Doric shafts.
Large axial stacks. This terrace comprises part of the
Hamilton Square development, an important example of formal
town planning instigated by John Laird in 1825. Nos. 23 & 24
were listed on 24.08.70.

Listing NGR: SJ3245089045

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530223

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)