53 and 55, Rainford Road is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. A Georgian Residential. 1 related planning application.
53 and 55, Rainford Road
- WRENN ID
- wild-brass-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 53 and 55, Rainford Road, Windle, WA10 6DD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 493 967
- Coordinates
- 53.46545, -2.76379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two houses dating from 1742, built of brick with a stone roof. They are two storeys high. The houses feature a central glazed and panelled door set within a Tuscan surround, topped with a lintel and shell hood. Two twelve-pane sash windows are present on the ground floor, distinguished by their thick glazing bars and segmental brick heads. Above them are two smaller, six-pane windows that do not open. A datestone above the central door bears the inscription “C I A” and the date 1742.
Local climate
53 and 55, Rainford Road 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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