5 WOOLTON MOUNT - Occupiers (continued):

1891-1938
Miss Annie Teebay became the next tenant and lived in 1938 this house for most of the rest of her life, dying in St Joseph's Home, Oakhill Park in 1938 leaving just over £4,000.

The ownership of this house, and Nos. 3 and 1 Woolton Mount, followed the pattern of The Riffel etc., (see Woolton Park Walk 1987) where ownership remained with the executors/ trustees of James Gore until c.1893, in 1894 becoming vested in M.A. Cross (the widow of Dr John Cross and James Gore's elder daughter) until 1903 when James Cross (1855-1921) inherited all these properties from his Aunt . It was only after the death of James Cross in 1921 that these properties came on the market.

BANKSIDE - built between 1840 & 1846, Listed Grade II. (about 1846 called Holme Leigh).

The chief alterations here are the addition of the 2-storey bay to the right of the porch on the entrance front, dating from the 1860s; additions at the rear and the bay on the east front to Acrefield Road which was built after 1891 - (our map of 1871 is incorrect in this detail).

Architectural description

If we visualise this house as it was at first without the two bay windows we can see that, like The Mount, it too has something of the character of a 2-storey shell which could have been treated as Classic or Gothic., but here there is more Gothic detail.

Gothic are the crenellations to the porch; and the elaborate bargeboards with among their tracery motifs mouchettes and quatrefoils; octagonal chimney stacks,-and dripstones like those at The Mount.

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