ROSELEIGH - Listed Grade II (Glenrose Road) - now from left Strawberry House, Mossdene and Crawfordsburn.

Architectural description & style -

The first section consisting of Mossdene and the pediment of Crawfordsburn - but think away the square bay and the timber bays - was there in 1861. The first floor window under the open pediment is Italianate in inspiration with its own segmental pediment, console brackets and vestigial pilasters. The asymmetric plan and the breaking of the scholarly rules of composition are characteristic of the cavalier Victorian approach to Classicism of this date.

An extension, Strawberry House, which we cannot date at all closely, is very much in keeping with the first piece. After that a further section, part of Crawfordsburn, seems to have been added. The 1 and 2-storey timber bay windows are post c.1903 but probably pre 1914.

[Illustration: Roseleigh as originally built and as extended].

Owners and Occupiers

1861 -67
Frederick B. Mozley (c.1840- ? ) was here by 7th April 1861, census night, at the age of 21 head of a household containing a brother and 2 sisters - Fanny 19, Alfred 13, a scholar and Eliza D. 10 also a scholar - with John Einhoven, a merchant of 33, born in London and Elizabeth Bentley 32, born Eccles both visitors and a staff of 5 including a groom.

The father of this family, Elias Joseph Mozley, banker of Liverpool, with a private address in Sandon Terrace, died on 20th Jan. 1851, in his 55th year, at Nice - where he had gone for his health. His widow, Rebecca, was still living in Sandon Terrace in 1853 but we have no further news of her.

Three months before the census, Charles Mozley (c.1798-1881) the uncle of Fred ? bought Beaconsfield and came to live in Little Woolton (see Beaconsfield Walk). At that time Charles was head of the banking house of I. Barned & Co., in 1863 he was the first Jewish Mayor of Liverpool, and was a Liberal; in 1866 he went bankrupt, sold Beaconsfield and left Liverpool; he died in London in May 1881 leaving £806.

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