GATEACRE BROW

Black Bull public house. Gable-end-to-the-road building probably C18, remodelled (by Cornelius Sherlock ?) in late C19 & given the present front in Domestic Revival style (c.f. Norman Shaw's New Zealand Chambers 1871 - via architectural press), 2-storeys, 2 gables, plain bargeboards, patterned timbering with W. of England type arched braces, quatrefoils & tile hanging, 'Ipswich' windows in ground floor, 3 sided bays under lean-to brick and red tile verandah, also round arched centre doorway & fanlight. Ornamented brick chimneys. (Cobbled forecourt specified in D.o.E. List).

Lynton & adjoining shops. Older buildings again refaced c.1880 in mock half timbering, eclectic variety of motifs, with Sussex half-hip, lozenges, windbraces, curved pediment /gables, Victorian bow window with curved glass to one shop. Rears are brick with small segmental headed sliding sashes of the earlier buildings. (Elaboration was a mark of social status).

Midland Bank. 1964, Architects Weightman & Bullen. Designed with great care to minimise visual impact on village, this is a modern building using materials familiar to its neighbours - timber painted black, glass appearing white, local stone and brick; the composition is classical, even to the idea of a main colonnade and attic, the security of the vault is expressed in the brick section. A most satisfactory addition to the village.

BELLE VALE ROAD

Nos. 1 - 9. Four blocks of similar houses in red sandstone ashlar built by c.1835 (c.f. 14-22 Church Rd. Woolton). Nos. 1 & 2 have moulded round-arched doorways, the others are plain; each has one 16-paned sash window on each floor, No.5 has 2 windows up, and door (to back passage) & a once blocked (?) upper window between 1 & 2 has been opened in 2 parts. No.1 has also c.1910 white painted wood surround to window on ground floor (once a pub.)

(Morphets Shop, part of this group, see No.1 Halewood Road.)

Elmsvale House. Listed by Local Authority as of 'local interest' mid C19 Georgian, double fronted, brick.

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