Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3089 PARK ROAD WEST
789-1/7/134 (North side)
No.74

GV II

House, now in use as nursing home. Dated 1859. Probably by
Walter Scott. Red brick with blue brick diaper work and Welsh
slate roof. Gothic style. 2 storeys, asymmetrical composition
with 3-bay range to left and projecting gabled wing to right.
Entrance in angle. Stilted arched doorway in porch with
parapet. Paired stilted arched windows to the left and 3
windows above, one an oriel corbelled out beneath steep gable
with barge-boards with pendant finial. Wing to right has
central stack corbelled out with date-stone and star-shaped
shafts. Canted bay window to ground floor and stilted arched
window alongside stack above. All windows are 2-pane sashes
with stone mullions and brick arched heads with keystones and
kneelers. Axial stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ3010089178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497455

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)