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[42690] Port Sunlight : 5 Park Road
5 Park Road, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, 1892-94.
By William Owen (1846-1910).
One of a terrace of 4 houses.
Grade ll listed.
The bay has a timber-framed gable with pargetting and a panel inscribed "AD 1892".
The model village of Port Sunlight was developed by William Lever (1851-1925), (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme) to provide housing for the workers in the nearby soap-making factory of Lever Brothers. The building of the factory started in 1888 with the help of William Owen, an architect from Warrington, where Lever previously had a factory, and the earliest houses were designed by Owen. Over the next 35 years the village grew and more houses were built.
The houses were built in blocks, each block was surrounded by green space, and each family was provided with an allotment for growing their own food. The houses were set in parkland, and public buildings were also constructed. All the groups of houses were individually designed, and all were different from the others. They were built in brick, stone and half-timbering, and incorporated features from many architectural styles, including medieval, Jacobean, and Queen Anne, with English, French, Dutch and Flemish influences. The houses were built at the low density of seven per acre (compared with the 40 per acre required at the time by bye-laws).
Lever employed nearly 30 architects, but was involved in all the designs, vetting every one of them himself. Most of the architects were local, but some London architects were also used. Following his earliest commissions, Owen continued to design more houses and other buildings, later in partnership with his eldest son, Segar Owen. The local architects mainly used were Grayson & Ould of Liverpool, John Douglas of Chester (in the partnerships of Douglas & Fordham and Douglas & Minshull), John Joseph Talbot and Wilson & Talbot of Liverpool. Thomas Meakin Lockwood of Chester designed two groups of houses. The architects from London included Maurice Bingham Adams, Ernest George & Yeates, Edwin Lutyens and Ernest Newton. Some of the earlier designs were by Lever's friend Jonathan Simpson and after 1910 almost all the buildings were designed by his son, James Lomax Simpson.
[42690] Port Sunlight : 5 Park Road
5 Park Road, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, 1892-94.
By William Owen (1846-1910).
One of a terrace of 4 houses.
Grade ll listed.
The bay has a timber-framed gable with pargetting and a panel inscribed "AD 1892".
The model village of Port Sunlight was developed by William Lever (1851-1925), (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme) to provide housing for the workers in the nearby soap-making factory of Lever Brothers. The building of the factory started in 1888 with the help of William Owen, an architect from Warrington, where Lever previously had a factory, and the earliest houses were designed by Owen. Over the next 35 years the village grew and more houses were built.
The houses were built in blocks, each block was surrounded by green space, and each family was provided with an allotment for growing their own food. The houses were set in parkland, and public buildings were also constructed. All the groups of houses were individually designed, and all were different from the others. They were built in brick, stone and half-timbering, and incorporated features from many architectural styles, including medieval, Jacobean, and Queen Anne, with English, French, Dutch and Flemish influences. The houses were built at the low density of seven per acre (compared with the 40 per acre required at the time by bye-laws).
Lever employed nearly 30 architects, but was involved in all the designs, vetting every one of them himself. Most of the architects were local, but some London architects were also used. Following his earliest commissions, Owen continued to design more houses and other buildings, later in partnership with his eldest son, Segar Owen. The local architects mainly used were Grayson & Ould of Liverpool, John Douglas of Chester (in the partnerships of Douglas & Fordham and Douglas & Minshull), John Joseph Talbot and Wilson & Talbot of Liverpool. Thomas Meakin Lockwood of Chester designed two groups of houses. The architects from London included Maurice Bingham Adams, Ernest George & Yeates, Edwin Lutyens and Ernest Newton. Some of the earlier designs were by Lever's friend Jonathan Simpson and after 1910 almost all the buildings were designed by his son, James Lomax Simpson.