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Hill Bark, Hoylake, Wirral
South of the hamlet of Frankby
Grade 2* House,
Originally built 1891 as Bidston Court at Bidston but in 1921 the house was sold to Sir Ernest Royden, and he arranged for the house to be dismantled and re-erected at the present site in 1929-31 by Rees and Holt.
English Heritage Building ID: 443648 Post Code CH48 1NP
Timber frame on stone base with brick and stone stacks and stone slate roof. U-plan with service wing to north
In 2001 the house was being used as an old people's home, and later in the 2000s it was converted into a hotel
There are photographs of the property (on its original site) taken in 1894 on http://www.englishheritagearchives.org.uk/ '