Numbers 3 And 4 With Gate Piers And Walling To Front Garden

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/252 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.3 AND 4 with gatepiers and walling to front garden

GV II

Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement. Symmetrically-designed double-pile plan, each a 3-window range with outer gabled wings. Side entrances in projecting porches, raised and extended over the original single-storey to No.3 but incorporating the original architrave and parapet which survives intact in No.4. 12-pane sash windows to No.4, renewed with 2-pane sashes in No.3. Plain architraves in advanced gabled wings, with entablatures to lower windows. Wood bargeboards to gables. Inserted dormer window cuts eaves in No.3. Axial stacks. Elevation to Esplanade has similar configuration, with 12-pane sash windows throughout, in 2-storey canted bays with cast-iron balconies in gabled wings. Original bay survives intact to No.4, extended with larger early C20 window to No.3. Paired gate piers to street: cylindrical shafts with fluted caps (one now missing). The houses form 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: SJ3350086650