34,36,38,40 and 42, Runcorn Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1981. Terrace of cottages. 2 related planning applications.

34,36,38,40 and 42, Runcorn Road

WRENN ID
stony-steel-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1981
Type
Terrace of cottages
Address
34,36,38,40 and 42, Runcorn Road, Barnton, CW8 4EL
OS grid reference
SJ 637 747
Coordinates
53.26817, -2.54545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-19th century terrace of five cottages built for the Trent and Mersey Canal Company, likely housing canal workers. The cottages are constructed of Flemish bond orange brick with a Welsh slate roof and four brick chimneys. The rectangular group has a nine-bay front, two stories in height, and a wooden cornice. Each cottage features a 12-pane sash window with flat, wedged stone heads and stone sills. The doorways have basket-arched wooden doorcases with columns, four-panelled doors, and blocked fanlights. A semi-circular headed entrance leads to a passage between numbers 34 and 36, with a blank window above. Number 42, set back on the left end, is an earlier construction, characterized by 16-pane sashes under wedged lintels and a simpler doorway. The Trent and Mersey Canal runs directly behind the terrace.

Local climate

34,36,38,40 and 42, Runcorn Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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