Wallasey is a town in Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 35 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Originally a number of small separate villages, the town grew in the 19th century to become a dormitory town for Liverpool. It also contains part of Birkenhead Docks.[1] There are only four listed buildings dating from before the 19th century, namely the isolated tower of a medieval church, a house, a rectory, and a former grammar school. The later listed buildings include houses, churches, public houses, buildings associated with the docks, the town hall, a library, part of a school, a watercourse, and two war memorials.
The tower of the original church stands separately from the present church, the rest having burnt down in 1857. The lower part is the older, and the upper parts date from 1530. The tower is in three stages with diagonal buttresses, and has blocked openings. In the top stage are louvred bell openings, and at the top of the tower is an embattledparapet with gargoyles.[1][3]
A house mainly in stone with some brick at the rear and with a slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, and is in three bays. The windows are mullioned, and there are two gableddormers. The doorway has a large inscribed lintel and a hood mould.[4]
A stone house with a roughcast 20th-century extension. It has two storeys, an attic, and a basement. There is a two-bay front with a central entrance, mullioned windows, and a gableddormer.[5]
Built as Wallasey Grammar School and later used as a private house. It is in stone with a slate roof, in one storey and three bays. On the front are two blocked entrances, a glazed door, and casement windows. On the gabled street front are a blocked round-headed window and a sash window.[6][7]
A terrace of ten stone houses with slate roofs. They have two storeys, and each house has two bays. Two groups of four bays project forward under gables. Most of the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes.[8]
The church was designed by John Hay in the style of 1300, and was enlarged in 1859 and in 1891. It is in sandstone with Welsh slate roofs, and consists of a nave with a dormers, aisles, a north transept, a chancel, and a north vestry. At the northwest is a steeple with a three-stage tower with pinnacles and spire, shortened in height in the 20th century, and restored to its original height in 2013–14.[11][12][13]
A terrace of four brick houses with stone dressings and a slate roof. They have three storeys and nine bays, the outer two bays at each end projecting forward. The windows are sashes with wedge lintels. The entrances are round-headed with fanlights. The garden walls are included in the listing.[14]
The church was built in the churchyard of a medieval church that had been destroyed by fire in 1857. It was designed by W. and J. Hay, and is built in stone with a slate roof. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, a chancel with a north vestry and a south chapel, and a tower at the crossing. The tower has an embattledparapet with gargoyles, and an octagonal stair turret rising to a greater height.[1][18]
The accumulator tower is at the entrance to Alfred Dock, it is built in brick, and has stone dressings. The tower has a square plan and is in two stages. It has corner buttresses, a corbelledcornice, and a copedparapet. The windows are round headed, and grouped in pairs and triplets. On the south side is a round-headed doorway.[22]
The water tower is in brick on a stone base with stone dressings. It has a square plan, is in five storeys, and in Romanesque style with a round-headed entrance. On each side is a giant arch containing pairs of round-headed windows with colonnettes. At the top is a Lombard frieze, a cornice, and a machicolatedparapet.[23]
The warehouse was designed by G. F. Lister, and has been converted into flats. It is in brick on a stone base, with stone dressings, and has six storeys, with 18 bays along the front and five along the sides. At the top is a corbelledparapet. The windows have projecting segmental lintels with keystones and imposts. On the front are loading bays, and at the north end is a turret.[24][25]
The warehouse was designed by G. F. Lister, and has been converted into flats. It is in brick on a stone base, with stone dressings, and has six storeys, with 24 bays along the front and five along the sides. At the top is a corbelledparapet. The windows have projecting segmental lintels with keystones and imposts. On the front are loading bays, and at the north end is a turret.[24][26]
The hydraulic generating station, now derelict, consists of an engine house and tower that were designed by J.B. Hartley. The engine house is in brick with stone dressings, it has three storeys and seven bays. A block connects it to a stone tower, which has buttresses, balconies, and clock faces. At the top are machicolations, and an embattledparapet with notched merlons.[27][28]
A public house in Gothic Revival style, built in stone and brick with slate roofs, on a corner site. It has two storeys, with four bays on Brighton Street, three on Buchanan Road, and a turret on the corner. The turret is polygonal and has a crenellatedparapet and a spire. On the Brighton Street front is the main entrance with an oriel window above, and three gables surmounted by seated griffins. On the other front is an arched doorway and a canted and crenellated two-storey bay window.[30]
The pumping station was extended in 1908. It is in common brick with red brick dressings and a slate roof, and is in six bays by three bays, with a three-bay extension. Along the front is an arcade, partly blind and partly with segmental windows and round windows above. The ends are gabled, and on the roof are louvres. At the north end is a chimney stack with a machicolated cap.[31]
Originally a Unitarian church, it is now redundant and under the care of the Historic Chapels Trust. The church was designed by Edmund Waring and Edmund Rathbone in Arts and Crafts style. It is built in brick with stone dressings and has a tiled roof. The church has a rectangular plan, with a narthex at the front, a hall at the left, and a vestry and other rooms at the rear. The entrance is in an octagonal porch and has arches with columns, and a pyramidal roof. The fittings were designed by Art Nouveau craftsmen from the Bromsgrove Guild.[33][34]
The memorial to the South African War is in Central Park, and is by J. Whitehead and Sons. It has a stone base containing inscribed names and a panel. On the base is a marble statue of Britannia standing and holding a wreath, a shield, and a flag.[35]
The stone water tower by J. H. Crowther is octagonal and has an octagonal turret rising to a greater height. The entrance and windows are round-headed, and in the top stage are round-headed openings with Ionic colonnettes. At the top of the tower is a cornice and a double-stepped embattledparapet.[6][36]
The library incorporates a house dating from about 1840. The library is in red Ruabon brick and buff terracotta on a steel frame, with a green slate roof, and is in Edwardian Baroque style, and the house is in buff sandstone in Scottish Tudor Gothic style with blue slate roof. The library has a T-shaped plan, with a two-storey range facing the road and a single-storey wing to the south. The house is attached to the library, and has an L-shaped plan, and a three-storey round tower in the angle. The main front has three wide bays, with the entrance in the middle bay, which has an elaborate surround and a segmental open pediment. The outer bays project under an open pediment, and contain a Venetian window in the upper floor.[39][40]
The town hall was designed by Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornley, and is in limestone with Welsh slate roofs. It is in three storeys, and has a rectangular plan, with sides of 15 and 19 bays. In the centre is a three-stage tower with openings flanked by columns. At the corners are four figures sculpted by William Birnie Rhind. Above are porticos on each side, and a stepped pyramidal roof surmounted by a copper cupola.[41][42]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of St John's Church. It is in Cornishgranite, and consists of a wheel-head cross with a sword carved in low relief on the front of the shaft. The cross stands on a plinth on a single-step base. On the front of the plinth is an inscription.[43]
The ferry terminal was designed by L. St G. Wilkinson, it is in brick with dressings in Portland stone, and has tiled roofs. The building consists of two ranges at right angles, and along the ground floor of both ranges is a loggia carried on pairs of Doric columns. The range parallel to the River Mersey contains booking and entrance halls and is in a single storey. Its protruding central entrance block is in stone, flanking it are three bays on each side, and above it is a brick clock tower. The other range has two storeys and eleven bays. On the central bays is a stepped parapet with urns, a flagstaff, and the municipal coat of arms.[44][45]
The watercourse is a cascade feature in the grounds of the former Cadbury factory designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe. The feature and associated structures are in concrete, brick and wrought iron. It has a linear plan and consists of a series of ten pools stepping down a slope. Associated with the feature are a retaining wall, viewing platforms, railings, and planters.[46]
A school building designed by Emsley A. Morgan to use and conserve passive solar energy. The south front is completely glazed with two skins of glass. Other parts are in brick, stone and timber, and the roof is felted. The building is mainly in two storeys and comprises an assembly hall, gymnasium, kitchen, and corridors.[49]
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