Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ28NE NOCTORUM LANE, Noctorum 789-1/3/210 (West side) Rathmore

II

Large house. c1880s. Brick with stone dressings and red plain tiled roof. Simplified Jacobean style. 2 storeys with attic, 3 principal rooms to rear, hall and projecting stair tower to front, the service rooms originally in a separate wing to the north. Entrance to left in gabled porch with ogee outer arch and leaded windows. Paired inner doors with Rococo carved panels in deeply moulded brick arch. Gabled bay behind, with 3-light mulioned window to first floor. Octagonal stair turret rises to the right, with conical roof. Canted bay window with stone mullions lights front hall-way, with three 3-light mullioned windows above lighting upper landing. Advanced gable to right with doorway and 4-light mullioned and transomed windows probably originally part of the service quarters. Adjoining it to the right, 2 hipped roofs over single storey service and coach house range. Garden front of 3 gabled bays. Outer gables have full-height canted bay windows with stone mullions and leaded lights. Half-timbered gable projects above, carried on corbels. Central gable has paired 3-light stone mullioned windows in full height shallow squared bay with central buttress. Half timbered gable projects over coving above. Axial and end wall stacks with clustered polygonal shafts. Inside, much of the original detailing survives, with Jacobean style wood panelling to hall and staircase, C18 style plaster-work and wall panelling in principal rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ2919088028

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback