Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3088 PARK ROAD SOUTH
789-1/10/128 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
Cannon Mount (flats)

II

Pair of houses now divided as flats. Dated 1863. Probably by
Walter Scott. Yellow brick with stone dressings and Welsh
slate roof. 2-storeyed with attics, symmetrically planned with
gothic detailing. Side entrances, each with arched open-work
timber porch supporting squared bay window with hipped roof
above. Elevation to street of 3 bays with outer gables, that
to right advanced. Squared bay window in left-hand gable with
tripartite stilted arched window, raking parapet forms plinth
of narrower first floor bay with fretted parapet over. Canted
bay in right-hand gable, with paired stilted arched window
over on each floor, and balcony to upper windows. Stepped
tripartite stilted arched windows in central bay, with
cast-iron balcony carried on stone brackets to first floor.
Stone coped gables to front range, fretted bargeboards in
parallel rear range. End wall stack, with date.

Listing NGR: SJ3057688713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579934

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy