Fern House in Botanic Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1972. Fern house.

Fern House in Botanic Gardens

WRENN ID
young-turret-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1972
Type
Fern house
Address
Fern House in Botanic Gardens, Botanic Road
OS grid reference
SD 366 187
Coordinates
53.66118, -2.95982
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fern House is a fern house located in the Botanic Gardens, likely built around 1876. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features a whitewashed glass roof. The building has a long rectangular shape oriented on a north-south axis and is a single storey. The east wall is very plain, with simple doorways at each end and a series of stone brackets shaped like rainwater hoppers. The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted to be very fine, with walls covered in rustic pumice stone arranged to resemble grottoes, along with inset rockery stone, mirrors, and pools, creating a suitable setting for rare ferns.

Local climate

Fern House in Botanic Gardens sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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