Listed buildings in Rock Ferry


is a suburb of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 35 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". The area is residential, and developed originally as a private estate by Jonathan Bennison in 1836–37. Most of the listed buildings are large houses and associated structures built in this development. The other listed buildings are a slipway into the River Mersey, a sea wall, and two churches.
Name and locationPhotographDateNotes
Rock Ferry Slipway
1820The slipway is thought to be the earliest surviving solid structure to be built into the River Mersey, and is about long. Its surface consists of sandstone and granite setts. On the sides are large sandstone blocks, iron rings, and timber bulwarks. The slipway is no longer in use.
Sea wall to Esplanade
The wall between the Esplanade and the sea is in stone, and is about high.
1 and 2 Rock Park
A pair of ashlar-faced houses with a hipped Welsh slate roof in Italianate style. They have two storeys with basements, and each house has a two-bay front. The entrances are on the sides and have porches with parapets. The windows are sashes with a variety of surrounds. The walls, railings, and gate piers with
Two stuccoed octagonal gate piers with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. Originally at an entrance to the park, they have since been moved here.
Gate piers
Two stuccoed octagonal gate piers with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. Originally at an entrance to the park, they have since been moved here.
3 Rock Lane East
An ashlar-faced house with a rusticated ground floor, and a Welsh slate roof, in Neoclassical style. It has two storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway has an Ionic portico. The windows are sashes, those in the lower floor having cast iron colonettes, voussoirs and keystones. The upper floor windows have mouldeded architraves. At the rear are a French window and dormers.
5 Rock Lane East
An ashlar-faced house with a concrete tiled roof. It has a square plan with three bays on each front, and is in two storeys. The windows are sashes. On the front facing the road is a projecting gabled wing and a doorway. There is another doorway on the right side, and a canted bay window at the rear.
7 Rock Lane East
An ashlar-faced house with a Welsh slate roof in Neoclassical style. It has two storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway has a portico with paired Doric columns. The windows are sashes, those in the lower floor being round-headed with voussoirs and keystones. The upper floor windows have pedimented architraves and decorated friezes. The front wall and gate piers with ball finials are included in the listing.
12 Rock Lane East
A stuccoed house with a Welsh slate roof in Gothic style. It has two storeys with an attic and a symmetrical three-bay front, the central bay projecting slightly forward and gabled. The central doorway has a fanlight and hood mould, and above the door are a balcony and French windows. The other windows are sashes, also with hood moulds. There are gables on the sides; all the gables have fretted bargeboards. The wall and octagonal gate piers with pyramidal caps are included in the listing.
34 and 35 Rock Park
A pair of roughcast houses with Welsh slate roofs in simple Italianate style, later divided into flats. They have two storeys with attics and basements. Each house has a front of three bays and a recessed bay outside them. This bay has a porch containing a round-headed doorway with a moulded architrave. The windows are replaced, those in the lower storey having round heads with keystones supporting a balcony with a cast iron balustrade.
36 and 37 Rock Park
A pair of roughcast houses with a Welsh slate roof in two storeys. They are symmetrical and each house has a two-bay front, the outer bays projecting slightly forward. The windows are sashes, and the entrances are on the sides.
38 and 39 Rock Park
A pair of stuccoed house with a rusticated ground floor and a hipped Welsh slate roof in Neoclassical style. They have two storeys and a four-bay front, the bays divided by pilasters. The entrances are through porches on the sides. The windows are sashes in moulded architraves, the outer ones in the ground floor having mullions and voussoirs.
40 and 41 Rock Park
A pair of rendered houses with a roof partly in Welsh slate and partly in concrete tiles. They have two storeys, and each house has a three-bay front, the centre bays gabled and projecting forward. The doorways have entablatures and fanlights. The windows are varied.
Oakleigh
An ashlar-faced house with a Welsh slate roof in simple Neoclassical style. It is in two storeys, and has a symmetrical three-bay front. The central bay has a pedimented gable, and a projecting porch that has a doorway with an entablature. The windows are sashes. On the left is a 20th-century service wing.
The Roft
A stuccoed house with a Welsh slate roof in two storeys with an attic. It has a symmetrical three-bay front, with a large timber porch added in about 1900. Flanking it are mullioned and transomed windows with entablatures on consoles. In the upper floor the bays are divided by pilasters, and the windows are sashes with mouldeded architraves.
Royal Mersey Yacht Club
Originally two houses, later used as a yacht clubhouse, in brick with stone dressings, and with a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys and a six-bay front. The outer bays project forward and are gabled. The entrances are on the sides, and the windows are sashes with architraves and hood moulds.
St Margaret's
Originally a house, or two houses, later used as a convent, it is ashlar-faced, the lower storey being rusticated, with a Welsh slate roof. The building is in Neoclassical style, with two storeys and a six-bay north front containing two doorways, one with an architrave. The west front is the principal face, and has a pedimented centre flanked by bays containing bay windows and gables.
Toftcombs
A stuccoed house with a Welsh slate roof in two storeys, and in Tudor style. It has an asymmetrical plan, with three different-sized gables facing the road. The doorway is on the right side, it has a fanlight, and there is a recessed cross above it. Other features include oriel windows, an octagonal turret, a canted bay window, and octagonal chimney stacks.
St Peter's Church
1841–42The church was designed by Hurst and Moffat in Neo-Norman style, a Gothic chancel was added in about 1884, and repairs and alterations were carried out following damage in the Second World War. It is in sandstone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a chancel with a vestry, north and south chapels, and a west steeple. The steeple is in three stages, and has a broach spire with lucarnes.
Highfield United Reformed Church
1870–71Originally a Congregational church by David Walker, it is built in Storeton stone with Welsh slate roofs. The church consists of a nave, aisles, shallow transepts, and a southwest steeple. The steeple has a tower, a broach spire and the bases of angle pinnacles, and the windows contain Decorated tracery. To the east of the church is a complex of hall and vestries.
Ravenswood
1874Originally a house, later incorporated into a school, it has retained many of its external and internal features. The house is in stone with a slate roof. It has two storeys with attics and three bays. The entrance is in the central gabled bay, and it has a porch with a coat of arms in a roundel above. To the right is a square bay window that has a balcony with a pierced parapet. Most of the windows are mullioned, and some are also transomed.
St Anne's Church and presbytery
1875–74A Roman Catholic church by E. W. Pugin in Decorated style completed by Pugin and Pugin. It is in sandstone with roofs of slate and asphalt and has crested ridges. A two-storey brick presbytery by Peter Paul Pugin was added in 1884–85. The church has a cruciform plan, and consists of a nave, a baptistry, aisles, transepts, and a chancel flanked by chapels.