Building record 11084 - No 13-17 Lower Park Road

No 13-17 Lower Park Road was built in the 1860s 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)

Originally built as a stables and loft, they have since been converted to private dwellings. They are two storeys high, of English garden wall bond brown brick with a grey slate roof. Frieze and cornice over former carriage entrance (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469856 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.