Numbers 14 And 15 With Gatepiers To Front Garden

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/258 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.14 AND 15 with gatepiers to front garden

GV II

Pair of houses. c1836. Stucco, rusticated to ground floor with Welsh slate roof. Italianate style, 2 storeys with attic and basement, 2-unit double-pile plan. Symmetrically-designed with central entrance to each house in porch to angle formed by the outer advanced gabled wings. Round-arched in single-storey porches flanked by 4-pane round-arched sash windows. Cast-iron balustrade to basement area. Upper windows are also 4-pane sashes in shouldered architraves. All windows renewed in original openings to No.14. Round arched attic window in apex of gabled outer wing. Eaves overhang on brackets, and bargeboards return to pediment the gable. End wall and axial stacks. No.14 has further advanced hipped gable to left with tripartite sash window to ground floor and 4-pane sash window above. Elevation to Esplanade has 2-storeyed canted bay window in outer gable with parapet, and balcony to first floor in central range. Cast-iron balustrade and canopy carried on cast iron columns survives to No.14 only. Dormer window recessed in segmental pediment which cuts the eaves cornice in central range. End wall and axial stacks. Paired square gate piers to street with shallow pyramidal caps. The houses form part of the original development of Rock Park, laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3363686462