12, Benson Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. House.
12, Benson Street
- WRENN ID
- white-mantel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 352 900
- Coordinates
- 53.40353, -2.97611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Benson Street is a house, now used as an office, dated 1818 on the rainwater head. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and stands three storeys high with an attic basement, featuring two bays. The building has a first-floor sill band and a top cornice. The windows are fitted with wedge lintels and sashes, with the first-floor window above the door having glazing bars. The second floor contains one window only, which is a casement. The entrance, located to the right of the ground floor window, features a round-headed doorcase with wide consoles and a six-panelled door. The rainwater head displays the initials W L K along with the date. This building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
12, Benson Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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