Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Lock-up. 1 related planning application.
Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- rooted-beam-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- Lock Up, Childwall Road, L15 8GJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 392 894
- Coordinates
- 53.39833, -2.9144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lock-up, built in 1796, is a two-storey octagonal structure made of stone, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and a weather-vane added by Sir James Picton. It features a flat band over the ground floor, a top cornice, and four gables. The ground floor has round-headed recesses with square blind windows, and the entrances are located on the south side. The first floor contains square blind windows, with the window above the entrance having its upper part open and fitted with diagonal iron bars.
Local climate
Lock Up 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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