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Landour

A Grade II Listed Building in Oxton, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3882 / 53°23'17"N

Longitude: -3.0463 / 3°2'46"W

OS Eastings: 330510

OS Northings: 388439

OS Grid: SJ305884

Mapcode National: GBR 7Y58.84

Mapcode Global: WH87D.53NC

Plus Code: 9C5R9XQ3+7F

Entry Name: Landour

Listing Date: 10 August 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1282607

English Heritage Legacy ID: 389270

ID on this website: 101282607

Location: Claughton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH43

County: Wirral

Electoral Ward/Division: Oxton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Birkenhead

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


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

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