New Quay Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Ventilation station. 4 related planning applications.
New Quay Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- first-sandstone-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Ventilation station
- Address
- New Quay Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel, Fazakerley Street, L3 9UB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 339 906
- Coordinates
- 53.40829, -2.9951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A tunnel ventilation station, built between 1925 and 1934 as part of the Mersey Road Tunnel. Designed by Sir Basil Mott and J.A. Brodie, with Herbert J. Rowse acting as architect. The station is constructed of brick and features two framed entrances, decorative bands of brickwork at the top and bottom, and three ventilation slits. At the rear are two towers with decorative brickwork and copper coving. The original doors remain in place.
Local climate
New Quay Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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