The Carriage House, and Gate Piers to Garden is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Carriage House, and Gate Piers to Garden
- WRENN ID
- peeling-postern-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Carriage House, and Gate Piers to Garden, 51, 51a and 51b, St Michael's Road, L17 7AW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 369 871
- Coordinates
- 53.37712, -2.9497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Carriage House, originally known as Holly Bank, dates from circa 1815 and was built for John Cragg. It is now divided into separate dwellings. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate roof. It is two storeys high with a four-bay arrangement, the central two bays projecting forward under a gable. The elevations feature diagonal buttresses. Parapets with quatrefoil panels are present in the flanking one-storey bays. Windows have chamfered reveals and label moulds, with three-light iron casements incorporating iron-framed diamond panes and ogival heads. The central entrance is recessed, featuring a four-centred head and arch resting on shafts with traceried spandrels, and leads to a half-glazed door. The side elevation facing the road originally contained a stable entrance with stone, pointed-arched openings, one with tracery and cusped spandrels. Two modern shopfronts have been inserted either side of this entrance. There is a coach house entrance with a round window in a gabled projection. A side entrance to the house has a hood and iron cresting. The eaves are supported by iron brackets, and iron supports are also visible on the chimney. The property also includes iron Gothic gate piers leading to the rear garden; these are square and feature open, decorated tracery. Much of the detailing is cast iron.
Local climate
The Carriage House, and Gate Piers to Garden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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