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 ====== Birkenhead Heritage Historic Home Guide ====== ====== Birkenhead Heritage Historic Home Guide ======
  
-====== Contents ======+===== Introduction ==== 
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 +The purpose of these pages is to give guidance to owners, property managers and other professionals who are concerned with the external redecoration and maintenance of property within the Birkenhead Heritage conservation area. 
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 +===== Contents =====
  
   *  [[:checking_the_outside_of_the_building|Checking the outside of the building]]   *  [[:checking_the_outside_of_the_building|Checking the outside of the building]]
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   * [[:references|References]]   * [[:references|References]]
  
-====== What this Guide does for you ====== 
  
-===== Introduction to these Heritage Advice pages =====+ 
 +===== Birkenhead Georgian Quarter (around Hamilton Square) ===== 
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 +{{  :exterior_view_of_no_40_hamilton_square.jpg?200|exterior_view_of_no_40_hamilton_square.jpg}}This Design Guide concentrates on Birkenhead’s distinctive Georgian Quarter (around Hamilton Square). This builds on existing advice from Edinburgh’s Conservation Advice, as the characteristics of conservation choices are similar, and we are indebted to their research and recommendations.
  
 Birkenhead is an eclectic mix of many different architectural styles and building materials from Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian periods moving toward Art Deco of 1930’s and the Brutalism of 1960’s, and the subsequent Contemporary Style of the 1980’s which continues to the present day. Birkenhead is an eclectic mix of many different architectural styles and building materials from Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian periods moving toward Art Deco of 1930’s and the Brutalism of 1960’s, and the subsequent Contemporary Style of the 1980’s which continues to the present day.
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 Thus, it is possible to produce a Design Guide for those buildings in order to enhance the each location, and help guide future planning and architectural design for those distinct areas, and avoid creating visual clashes which undermine the predominant street scene. Thus, it is possible to produce a Design Guide for those buildings in order to enhance the each location, and help guide future planning and architectural design for those distinct areas, and avoid creating visual clashes which undermine the predominant street scene.
  
-===== Birkenhead Georgian Quarter (around Hamilton Square) ===== 
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-{{  :exterior_view_of_no_40_hamilton_square.jpg?200|exterior_view_of_no_40_hamilton_square.jpg}}This Design Guide concentrates on Birkenhead’s distinctive Georgian Quarter (around Hamilton Square). This builds on existing advice from Edinburgh’s Conservation Advice, as the characteristics of conservation choices are similar, and we are indebted to their research and recommendations. 
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-The purpose of these pages is to give guidance to owners, property managers and other professionals who are concerned with the external redecoration and maintenance of property within the Birkenhead Heritage conservation area. 
  
  
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