Rockbank is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. House.

Rockbank

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1985
Type
House
Address
Rockbank, 23, Elmsley Road
OS grid reference
SJ 391 874
Coordinates
53.38009, -2.91664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rockbank is a house, now converted into flats, built in the 1860s. It is constructed from brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features four bays; the first bay is recessed and lower, while the end bay has a gable. It has a panelled fascia and large boards. The first bay includes two lancet windows on the ground floor and a canted oriel window flanked by decorative diapering with a hipped fishscale roof. The second, third, and fourth bays have a ground floor extension made of buff bricks, with a sill band and an entablature that supports an iron balcony, along with channelled rustication above the sill band.

The windows are tripartite sashes with colonnettes, surrounding a round-headed entrance that features a rusticated head and a masked key, along with a three-panel door flanked by stained glass lights. There is a later iron porch with a glazed lean-to roof and a central grilled gable. The first-floor windows have stone lintels adorned with dog-tooth ornamentation on the soffits. The outer windows are tripartite, with the one on the right having a central segmental head and a diapered tympanum, sashed with colonnettes, and a central casement with a painted glass light. To the right return, there is a canted two-storey bay. The building is topped with three tall stacks and is noted for being a very well-preserved embellished villa.

Local climate

Rockbank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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