Building record 11082 - Tavenor Tower, Lower Park Road

Tavenor Tower consists of a 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)

It is a rendered two storey building with a hipped grey slate roof. The recessed left bay has banded rustication to the ground floor; a boarded door; a 4-pane sash to the first floor; mansard roof with 2-pane sash in a pediment-gable dormer with dentils. The north face to the Dee has projecting right wing with recessed 2-pane sashes. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469854 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.