Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.

Rectory

WRENN ID
graven-pedestal-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Rectory
Address
Rectory, Church Lane, CH49 7LS
OS grid reference
SJ 275 867
Coordinates
53.37284, -3.09016
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a Rectory, constructed between 1861 and 1862, which replaced an earlier 19th century or late 18th century structure. It is made of brick with stone dressings and has a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Gothic style. The Rectory is two storeys high and features a two-room layout with a wide central entrance hall, although it originally extended to the north.

On the left side, there is a gable with paired mullioned windows on the ground floor, and an oriel bay that is corbelled out above, featuring pointed lights and a trefoil design on the gable wall. The gable has stone coping supported by moulded kneelers. The central doorway is located in a gabled timber porch, with the gable apex advanced on curved struts. This doorway is flanked by paired trefoiled lights leading into the hall. To the right, there is a canted bay with a stone roof and three trefoiled lights. Above, an upper window is set beneath a steep gabled dormer. The building has axial and end wall stacks. Inside, remnants of the original painted interior include some stencilled joists and ceiling beams.

Local climate

Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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