Listed buildings in Port Sunlight

Port Sunlight is a model village in Wirral, Merseyside, England.

[1] The model village of Port Sunlight was developed by William Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme) to provide housing for the workers in the nearby soap-making factory of Lever Brothers.

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.

[9] The primary school (1902–03) was designed by Grayson and Ould,[10] Christ Church (1902–04), a Congregational church, is by the Owens,[12] Hesketh Hall, a technical institute (1903), is by J. J. Talbot,[9] and the cottage hospital (1905–07) (now a hotel) is by Grayson and Ould.

[13] In 1913, a girl's club, now the visitors' centre, was designed by James Lomax-Simpson.

[11] Other listed buildings in the village, aside from houses, include Dell Bridge (1894), a footbridge by Douglas and Fordham;[10] the frontage of the factory, known as Lever House (1895), by the Owens;[14] a group of four hostels for girls (1896), by Maxwell and Tuke of Bury, that was later used as a bank and heritage centre;[15] a sculpture known as the sphinx (probably about 1896);[16] the Silver Wedding Fountain (1899), built to celebrate the silver wedding of Lever and his wife;[17] a pool (probably about 1913) with a fountain by Charles Wheeler added in 1949;[18] a pair of telephone kiosks (1935) by Giles Gilbert Scott;[19] and an arch and the walls surrounding the rose garden (about 1937) by James Lomax-Simpson.