Highgate House

Highgate House, located at 8 Ashville Road in Birkenhead, is a house dated 1847, likely designed by Walter Scott. It is built of brick with stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, showcasing a picturesque asymmetrical Tudor style. The house has two storeys and an attic, with four main bays.

The main block includes a central entrance hall and stairway, flanked by principal rooms in gabled bays on either side, with an additional bay to the right. A gabled porch leads to the hallway, which has a three-light mullioned window. The staircase is highlighted by a series of stepped small two-light windows beyond. The paired doors and fanlight above them feature rustic decoration and quatrefoil panels, while the doorway is adorned with the Hinde family arms.

To the left of the doorway is a full-height projecting square bay window, which has tall mullioned windows with foiled or segmental lights on each floor. The attic window above is set beneath a wide coped gable, balancing the right-hand gable that is accentuated by angle quoins and features a three-light mullioned window on the main floors. An additional bay to the right includes a trefoiled mullioned window on the ground floor. The house has parapet eaves throughout and gable and axial stacks.

Highgate House is part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, which was designed by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847.