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Woolton Hill Road, LIVERPOOL, L25 4RD

Cliff Cottage and Woolton Hill Road lodge to Reynolds Park were part of the Dennison estate. The original two storey cottage was built at the beginning of the 19th century but much extended over the following seventy years or so. The Little Woolton Township Quarry lay between the back drive of Bishop's Lodge and Cliff Cottage, the area now called Parkwood Road. It is possible that the original cottage was connected to this stone quarry as the chimney has a flue which links to a stone chamber with fireplace 15ft below, which was most likely a quarryman's shelter. Between Cliff Cottage and Reynolds Park Lodge lies a further disused stone quarry.

Originally the entrance lodge to the early 19th century Dennison's House which was situated adjacent to the deep stone quarry on Woolton Hill Road. Although the house was demolished in 1886 the driveway to the house continued to be known as 'Denison's Road' and lead to Dove Park, later to be renamed Reynold's Park http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386418.

First daffodils seen this year at the entrance to the Blackwoods, Woolton.

Beaconsfield Road right of centre

A fine ensemble, rotting away at the entrance to Knolle Park (also rotting away). A Greek Doric lodge and panelled gatepiers. Probably 1820s. Grade II listed.

A single storey lodge of painted stone with a two column Greek Doric portico thought to have been built in the 1820's in a similar style to that of the main house. Knolle Park House, originally a grand classic styled house, was later used as St Gabriel's Convent and "Poor Law School", a children's care home. Plans have recently been submitted to convert the house into luxury apartments. The planning application details the restoration and conversion of both the 1828-built Knolle Park House and the Grecian-style lodge.

Woolton Hill Road was described in The Enclosure Act of 1805 as Red Brow, "40 ft wide, where hitherto the cows and sheep of Gateacre had drifted to their common pastures". Woolton Hill would have been common land of rough scrubland and red sandstone outcrops prior to becoming a favoured location for wealthy merchants to build grand country mansions. The house to the right is simply named "The Cottage" on early maps and is linked to the grand house Baycliff built in 1869-71 (now the residence of Liverpool's Anglican bishops known as Bishop's Lodge).

Formerly attached to Knolle Park and dating from the 1820s. Arched centrepiece, now flanked by "hideous" additions inexplicably permitted when the building was converted to housing. Grade II listed.