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Latitude: 53.3939 / 53°23'38"N
Longitude: -3.0173 / 3°1'2"W
OS Eastings: 332450
OS Northings: 389045
OS Grid: SJ324890
Mapcode National: GBR 7YC6.K3
Mapcode Global: WH876.MYFK
Plus Code: 9C5R9XVM+H3
Entry Name: Numbers 19 to 34 (Consecutive) with Railings to Front
Listing Date: 29 July 1950
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292180
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389208
ID on this website: 101292180
Location: Birkenhead, 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: Birkenhead Christ the King
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Building
SJ 3289,
789-1/9/72
BIRKENHEAD,
HAMILTON SQUARE (north-west side),
Nos. 19-34 (consecutive) with railings to front
29/07/50
GV
I
Terrace of sixteen units, forming NW range of square. 1839-1844. By
James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced over brick with Welsh
slate roofs. Three storeys with attic and basement. Each unit a
three-window range with wide entrance hall and single-room
double-depth plan with staircase between the two rooms.
Terrace symmetrically designed with end pavilions projecting,
and stepped projecting central section of four bays. Rusticated
basement storey throughout. Outer pavilions stressed with
arched windows flanking porches with Doric columns. Pavilions
and central bays also stressed with giant Doric order of
attached columns with entablature. Others have 4-panelled
doors in stressed architraves and 12-pane sash windows with
stressed voussoirs to ground floor. Upper windows all 12-pane
sashes with cast-iron acanthus motif balconies to first floor,
and entablatures used to emphasise central bays. Spear-head
railings to basement area, and sphinx boot scrapers on steps.
3-bay return elevations to Cleveland Street and Price Street
with central door in architrave with engaged Doric shafts.
Large axial stacks. This terrace comprises part of the
Hamilton Square development, an important example of formal
town planning instigated by John Laird in 1825. Nos. 23 & 24
were listed on 24.08.70.
Listing NGR: SJ3245089045
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