7-23, THE GINNEL

This is a terrace of nine houses located at 7-23 The Ginnel, Port Sunlight. They were built in 1914 by J. Lomax Simpson. The houses are constructed with roughcast render on a brick base to sill level, with some exposed brickwork, and have hipped tile roofs.

The terrace is two storeys high and has six bays, with a three-bay return wing to the left. The third and fourth bays project forward beneath gabled features, and the sixth bay projects beneath a hipped roof, all with brickwork to the ground floors and quoins. A top cornice runs along the building, and the gables are decorated with wreaths and festoons. The ground-floor windows have small panes and brick heads with keys, most being four-light windows, with the exception of the first bay which has three lights. First-floor windows have eared architraves, configured as three, three, four, four, four, and three-lights. Entrances have flat canopies and small-paned lights to half-glazed doors.

The left return features a projecting bay and a bay that breaks forward under a pedimented gable. The third bay has a recessed ground floor behind a two-bay Tuscan colonnade. The first bay contains a four-light canted oriel with an ogival base and a tented lead roof on the first floor. The right return includes a projecting bay with a two-storey canted bay window and a re-entrant porch. There are six chimney stacks. The rear elevation is similar in design.