HILLSIDE - demolished about 10 years ago.

Architectural description (based on photographs and maps).

This 3-storey house, latterly a number of flats, had been much extended with a single storey billiard room on the south, kitchen, nursery and bedrooms to the north, two 2-storey bays to the east, a stone porch to the front door oh the west.

Above ground level the house was of brick (in Flemish bond as 45 & 47 Woolton Street dating possibly from c.1790; and Eton Hall, Woolton Road, Wavertree built for Rev. Hezekiah Kirkpatrick in 1776). Photographs show quoins and window surrounds on the west and east fronts, but those taken during demolition reveal that the quoins were painted stucco, not stone, as were the window surrounds which from their heaviness and shape of console brackets could date from the 1860s.

Shorn of accretions it is possible to isolate a 3-bay 3½-storey double pile house of a vernacular type here, with that window-high-in-the-gable-between-chimney-stacks which is characteristic of the local type. This example, however, though 3-bay on the entrance front, apparently had 4-bays on the east side. There were cellars which, because of the slope of the ground, were semi basement only on the east.

It seems probable that when F.W. Reynolds moved here in the mid 1860s the house he came to was like that; and he was responsible, over the next quarter century, for the stone porch, for re-windowing in sheet glass and the stucco window surrounds, for the two eastern bay windows and the later additions in due course for his large family. It is intriguing to note that there was a house here - or hereabouts - on the map of 1768.

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