Number 16 With Gatepiers To Garden

Number 16, with its gatepiers to the garden, is a house dating from approximately 1840 to 1850, likely designed by Walter Scott or Charles Reed. The exterior is ashlar faced, with a roof of Welsh slate. It is a two-story building in the Italianate style, featuring a symmetrical three-window facade. A projecting porch is centrally placed, with a door flanked by paired Doric shafts supporting an entablature. The porch includes paired inner doors with a fanlight above. The first-floor windows are sash windows set beneath segment heads. Ground-floor windows are sash windows with margin lights. Shallow, moulded stone panels are set between eaves brackets of the hipped roof, and end wall stacks are present. The gatepiers are panelled with shallow pyramidal copings. The property was originally part of the development of Birkenhead Park, planned by Joseph Paxton between 1843 and 1847.