Listed buildings in Noctorum

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Noctorum is a suburb of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains five buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". [1] The listed buildings are all large houses, or buildings associated with large houses.

Noctorum human settlement in United Kingdom

Noctorum is a suburb of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. At the 2001 Census the population of Noctorum was 4,990.

Birkenhead town in Merseyside, England

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Historically in Cheshire, it is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool. In the 2011 census, the Parliamentary constituency of Birkenhead had a population of 88,818.

Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Metropolitan borough in England

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotes
Mere Hall
53°22′47″N3°03′42″W / 53.37977°N 3.06165°W / 53.37977; -3.06165 (Mere Hall)
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1879–82A large house, later divided into flats, by Edmund Kirby in Jacobethan style. It is in brick with a tiled roof, and has two storeys and attics. The house consists of a main block of four bays, with a cross wing to the left and an advanced wing to the right. It has a stone porch with an entablature carried on large consoles. Other features include mullioned and transomed windows, gabled dormers with pyramidal roofs, a full-height bay window with a conical roof, and stair turrets, also with conical roofs. [2] [3]
Gate piers and wall,
Mere Hall
53°22′47″N3°03′39″W / 53.37985°N 3.06094°W / 53.37985; -3.06094 (Gate piers and wall, Mere Hall)
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The gate piers and wall were probably designed by Edmund Kirby. They are in sandstone. The gate piers has an irregular octagonal plan, and have moulded caps; they contain double gates. [4]
Lodge, Mere Hall
53°22′50″N3°03′45″W / 53.38049°N 3.06255°W / 53.38049; -3.06255 (Lodge, Mere Hall)
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The lodge was probably designed by Edmund Kirby. It is in ​1 1⁄2 storeys, the lower part is in brick, and the upper part is jettied and plastered with applied timbering. The lodge has a tiled roof, and there is a single-storey rear extension. The gabled porch is timber-framed with bulbous pilasters, and above the doorway is a Venetian window. At the rear is a gabled dormer containing another Venetian window. The other windows are mullioned, and there is a canted oriel window with a projecting gable. [5]
Rathmore
53°23′04″N3°03′58″W / 53.38432°N 3.06605°W / 53.38432; -3.06605 (Rathmore)
Rathmore - geograph.org.uk - 1100598.jpg
A large house by Edmund Kirby in simplified Jacobean style. It is in brick with stone dressings and some timber-framing, and it has a tiled roof. The house has two storeys with attics. The windows are mullioned and transomed. Features include timber-framed gables, an octagonal stair turret, and canted bay windows. [2] [6]
Lodge, Bidston Court
53°23′33″N3°04′35″W / 53.39255°N 3.07641°W / 53.39255; -3.07641 (Lodge, Bidston Court)
Unusual house near Bidston - geograph.org.uk - 217938.jpg
The lodge was designed by Grayson and Ould. It is in brick, partly stuccoed with pargeted panels, and has a decorative tiled roof. There are two storeys, the upper storey being jettied, and there are three chimney stacks with spiral fluting. The lodge has two bays, the right bay being gabled and containing an Ipswich window in each storey. [2] [7] [lower-alpha 1]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Bidston Court was moved and rebuilt as Hill Bark in Frankby. [2] [7]

Citations

  1. ↑ Historic England
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pollard & Pevsner (2006), p. 154
  3. ↑ Historic England & 1291909
  4. ↑ Historic England & 1201560
  5. ↑ Historic England & 1291911
  6. ↑ Historic England & 1291876
  7. 1 2 Historic England & 1219035

Sources

Historic England Executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, tasked with protecting the historical environment of England

Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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