Latitude: 53.39 / 53°23'24"N
Longitude: -3.049 / 3°2'56"W
OS Eastings: 330336
OS Northings: 388645
OS Grid: SJ303886
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y47.QH
Mapcode Global: WH87D.41DY
Plus Code: 9C5R9XR2+2C
Entry Name: Outwood House
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292199
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389188
ID on this website: 101292199
Location: Claughton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH43
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Claughton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: House School building
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SJ3088
789-1/10/65
BIRKENHEAD
MANOR HILL
St Anselm's College
Outwood House
(Formerly listed as St Anselm's College, EGERTON ROAD, (southside))
28/03/74
GV
II
House. c1860. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor over tooled plinth with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, Italianate style, square in plan, with central entrance and top-lit stair hall. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front with shallow bowed porch with Tuscan pilasters and balustraded parapet. Cast-iron lamp standards on step each side of doorway. Flanking windows are 4-pane sashes with stressed voussoirs. Pedimented architrave over central window of first floor. Garden front of 3 principal bays, with pedimented central advanced gable. Stressed by paired pilasters at first floor level. Bow window to ground floor and 3-segmentally arched windows with key blocks above. Paired round-arched windows in gable apex. 4-pane sash windows in flanking bay to left, one renewed in orginal opening. Conservatory largely rebuilt against right-hand bay. Side elevations similarly treated. Projecting eaves carried on modillion brackets throughout. Interior contains substantial elements of a late C19 decorative scheme which includes elaborate wall-panelling, plaster-work, fitted furniture light fittings, fireplaces, one with De Morgan tiles, and stained and etched glass in lantern over cantilevered stone staircase with cast iron balusters.
(Plan of Birkenhead and Claughton cum Grange 1858: Mills and Fletcher, Surveyors: 1858).
Listing NGR: SJ3033688645
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