Building record 11085 - Trafford House, Lower Park Road

Trafford House consists of a pair of villas built in the Italianate style 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. This item and other houses in Lower Park Road, Queen's Park Road, St John's Road and Victoria Pathway form part of the Queen's Park suburb planned by James Harrison 1851, with villas probably designed by him. (1)

They are of rendered stone dressed brick with a hipped grey slate roof. Although originally built as two private dwellings they have since been converted to flats with some alteration to the interior. There is a cellar on the Dee side of the villa with two storeys and an attic above. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469960 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.