Landour

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3088 PALM GROVE, Claughton 789-1/10/202 (West side) Landour

II

House. Dated 1850. Probably by Walter Scott. Yellow brick with some stone dressings and Welsh slate roof, laid diagonally. 2 storeys with attics. "Jacobethan" style. Square in plan. Elevation to Palm Grove of 3 bays, with outer Dutch gables, the right hand gable advanced. Central entrance with elaborately panelled door and star-traceried overlight in round arched architrave with banded shafts. Paired 2-pane sashes with strapwork cornice in left hand bay, the right-hand gable which forms the side elevation of the main range to Grosvenor Place blank but with stacks corbelled out at apex. Elevation to Grosvenor Place has 2 gabled bays, each with squared bay window to ground floor with 3 and 4 mullioned and transomed lights. Pilasters and cornice of bays ornamented with low-relief strapwork. Mullioned and transomed Venetian windows to first floor, with stressed hood mould and keyblock. Small round-arched sash window in pedimented case in narrow central bay between the gables. Strapwork parapet at eaves level running between Dutch coped gables.

Listing NGR: SJ3051088439