Building record 11081 - Fernrock & Kinders, Lower Park Road

Fernrock and Kinders consist of two attached villas in built in the 1850s as part of the Queen’s Park suburb of Handbridge. The suburb was promoted by Enoch Gerrard, who also had the Queen’s Park Bridge built, in the 1850s to 1860s as a middle class residential suburb. The Lower Park Road area was aimed at the upper middle class with iconic detached villas set within large designed gardens. The development of Queen’s Park progressed only at a slow rate and by the 1870s only six properties had been built. (1)

These properties consist of stone dressed Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roofs in the Italianate style. Both are two bays in width and three storeys high. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469853 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.