47-53, PRIMROSE HILL

A terrace of four houses at 47-53 Primrose Hill, Bebington, built in 1925 by J. Lomax Simpson, as part of the Port Sunlight estate. The houses are brick-built with a tile-hung first floor and hipped tile roofs. They are arranged as two storeys, six bays wide, with the end bays projecting and set under hipped gables. Re-entrant porches have cat-slide roofs. The central four bays feature tile-hanging that sweeps out to form a canopy over the ground floor, supported by a corbelled groin vault. The ground floor windows are segmental-headed, four-light casements with small panes. The end bays incorporate four-light canted bay windows. The first floor has three-light casements with small panes, and smaller windows are set into the re-entrant porches. The entrances have architraves and half-glazed doors with small-paned lights, and the porches feature round-headed openings. There are two stacks running perpendicular to the front elevation and return lateral stacks against the hipped dormers. The front windows have small return lights.