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Latitude: 53.3725 / 53°22'21"N
Longitude: -3.001 / 3°0'3"W
OS Eastings: 333500
OS Northings: 386650
OS Grid: SJ335866
Mapcode National: GBR 7YHF.3R
Mapcode Global: WH87D.WH4F
Plus Code: 9C5R9XFX+2J
Entry Name: Numbers 3 and 4 with Gate Piers and Walling to Front Garden
Listing Date: 13 March 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218780
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389312
ID on this website: 101218780
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
789-1/12/252 (East side)
13/03/73 Nos.3 AND 4
with gatepiers and walling to front
garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 2
storeys with attic and basement. Symmetrically-designed
double-pile plan, each a 3-window range with outer gabled
wings. Side entrances in projecting porches, raised and
extended over the original single-storey to No.3 but
incorporating the original architrave and parapet which
survives intact in No.4. 12-pane sash windows to No.4, renewed
with 2-pane sashes in No.3. Plain architraves in advanced
gabled wings, with entablatures to lower windows. Wood
bargeboards to gables. Inserted dormer window cuts eaves in
No.3. Axial stacks. Elevation to Esplanade has similar
configuration, with 12-pane sash windows throughout, in
2-storey canted bays with cast-iron balconies in gabled wings.
Original bay survives intact to No.4, extended with larger
early C20 window to No.3. Paired gate piers to street:
cylindrical shafts with fluted caps (one now missing). The
houses form part of the original Rock Park development laid
out in 1836 by J. Bennison.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3350086650
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