Numbers 16 And 17 With Gatepiers To Street

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/259 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.16 AND 17 with gatepiers to street

GV II

Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Neo-classical style, 2 storeys, each house a 3-window range double-pile plan symmetrically-designed with outer hipped gabled wings. Each house has central entrance in full-height pyramidal roofed porch to angle formed by wing. 6-panelled door in moulded stone architrave with narrow window over. 12-pane sashes flank this on each floor, the lower window to the right in 16 cut by added lean-to verandah. Overhanging eaves, end wall stacks. Rear elevation follows similar configuration with outer hipped gabled wings with canted bays to ground floor, and a balcony carried on cast-iron columns and stone brackets with ornate wrought iron railings across the central range. Paired gate piers to street front with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. The house forms part of the original Rock Park development laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3365886433