Anfield Building Surveys: Discovering 19th Century Suburbia

Anfield Road may be best known nowadays for the football stadium, but in the early 1800s it was better known as one of the best sites for large suburban houses favoured by city merchants looking to separate their home life from their work in the city.

We came across Anfield road ‘cottages’ and ‘villas’ on a recent Anfield survey. These houses were so-named to evoke rustic or grand imagery; the cottages were nothing like the workers’ factory cottages of the city centre – these were much larger and allowed owners to live in comfort.

Our Liverpool surveyor found two particularly intriguing properties with celebrity links. The first was a detached sandstone building, which had previously been home to the daughter of Henry Tate (of Tate & Lyle), and later to the footballer Ronnie Whelan.

Just next door, we found an original Anfield villa. Thought to have previously been owned by Henry Tate himself, it was later used as a secondary school and then a care home, before finally falling into disrepair. Incredibly, this imposing building is currently derelict.

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