10, Ashville Road

This house dates from approximately the 1840s to 1850s and may have been designed by Walter Scott. It is constructed with ashlar facing and has a scallop tiled roof. The design showcases picturesque Gothic asymmetry. The house is two-storied with a two-bay plan, featuring a stair tower prominent against the left-hand gable. The central entrance hall leads to principal rooms on either side. A coped gabled porch has an arched doorway with decorated spandrels and a trefoiled lancet window above. A high, traceried window, separated by a central transom, is located to the left, and a similar traceried window sits beneath an ornate, coped gabled dormer on the right. The right-hand bay projects slightly, with angular, foiled tracery to a three-light lower window, and an arched, traceried upper window featuring an ogee hood mould. End wall stacks are present. A curved conservatory was added to the rear of the left-hand gable in the late 19th century. The house was originally part of the development surrounding Birkenhead Park, designed by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847.