Highgate House

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SJ3089 789-1/7/8

BIRKENHEAD ASHVILLE ROAD (North West side) No.8 (Highgate House)

(Formerly Listed as: No.8 previously listed as ASHVILLE ROAD (West side) No.8 (incorporating No.6))

28/03/74

GV II

House. Dated 1847. Probably by Walter Scott. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Picturesque asymmetrical Tudor style. Two storeys and attic, four principal bays. Main block comprises central entrance hall and stairway, with principal rooms in expressed gabled bays to each side, and a further bay to the right. Gabled porch and three-light mullioned window to hallway, the staircase expressed via a series of stepped small two-light windows beyond. Quatrefoil panels to paired doors and fanlight with rustic decoration. Hinde family arms over doorway. Full-height projecting square bay window to left of doorway with tall mullioned windows with foiled or segmental lights on each floor. Wide coped gable over attic window above, balancing right-hand gable stressed by angle quoins and with three-light mullioned window on principal floors. Additional bay to right, with trefoiled mullioned window to ground floor. Parapet eaves throughout. Gable and axial stacks.

The house forms part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847.

Listing NGR: SJ3048289040