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40, Clifton Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Birkenhead, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3863 / 53°23'10"N

Longitude: -3.0249 / 3°1'29"W

OS Eastings: 331931

OS Northings: 388211

OS Grid: SJ319882

Mapcode National: GBR 7Y98.XT

Mapcode Global: WH87D.H4TS

Plus Code: 9C5R9XPG+G2

Entry Name: 40, Clifton Road

Listing Date: 28 March 1974

Last Amended: 10 August 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1217922

English Heritage Legacy ID: 389167

ID on this website: 101217922

Location: Tranmere, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41

County: Wirral

Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Birkenhead

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Tranmere St Catherine

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 July 2023 to amend date of construction and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ3188
789-1/11/56

BIRKENHEAD
CLIFTON ROAD (West side)
No.40

(Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON ROAD (West side) Nos.38 AND 40)

28/03/74

II
House, formerly one of a pair, the other now demolished. c1840. By Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor, with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, classical style of two principal rooms, double-depth plan and side entrance. Street front: outer (left-hand) block advanced with twelve-pane sash window with margin lights flanked by round-arched niches set in segmental bay to ground floor, sixteen-pane sash window with fanlight and recessed stone panel over to first floor, flanked by pilasters. Cornice and blocking course above. Inner (right-hand) bay to main street front has tripartite sash window to ground floor, and twelve-pane sash window in round-arched architrave with entablature and cast-iron balcony above. Cornice and blocking course. Entrance elevation of three bays divided by six pilasters. Central doorway with architrave and stressed entablature carrying a carved lion. Flanking sash windows with stressed voussoirs and three upper twelve-pane sash windows, all with margin lights. Balustraded parapet with raised central blocking. The house forms part of the original development of Clifton Park, laid out by Scott as a villa estate.

Listing NGR: SJ3193188211

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