The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- little-moulding-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 May 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ28NE 789-1/3/284
BIRKENHEAD Upton MORETON ROAD (East side) The Manor House
(Formerly Listed as: MORETON ROAD, Upton (East side) Upton Manor)
28/03/74
II
House, now in use as nursing home. c1857. Probably by John Cunningham. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, four-window range, with later taller rear block with attic storey. Central entrance in porch with paired Doric columns, flanking sash windows and full-height bay window. Three-window return elevation with central full height canted bay. Windows throughout in stressed architraves with pedimented hoods to ground floor. Modillion cornice to eaves, angle quoins. Rear block added later but in similar style. Five-window range to garden front, with outer canted bay windows to ground floor with balustraded parapets. 16-pane sash windows above. Ground floor windows have pedimented hoods, and all are in stressed architraves. Attic storey with segmentally-arched dormers breaking the eaves line. Belvedere tower with triple round-arched windows and low pyramidal roof to rear. Axial stacks.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ2663289018
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