Numbers 28, 30 and 30a Including Railings and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Houses. 6 related planning applications.

Numbers 28, 30 and 30a Including Railings and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
errant-steeple-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1988
Type
Houses
Address
Numbers 28, 30 and 30a Including Railings and Gate Piers, Wellington Road, CH45 2NG
OS grid reference
SJ 304 940
Coordinates
53.43874, -3.04901
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of houses, built around 1835. The houses are constructed of stucco, with a slate roof. They are two storeys high and eight bays wide. The first, third, sixth, and eighth bays project forward under gables with decorative bargeboards; the second and seventh bays have coped gables. The central bays feature stepped three-light windows with a label mould on the ground floor. The first floor has a corbelled-out gabled half-dormer. The third and sixth bays have gabled porches, with entrances featuring Tudor heads and hood moulds, flanked by lancets. The first floor of the third bay has a Tudor-head window, while that of the sixth bay has been replaced with a canted bay window. The second and seventh bays have Tudor-head windows, those in the seventh bay with flanking lights, and a gabled ground floor. The first bay has a 20th-century ground floor window with a label mould, and two Y-tracery windows on the first floor. The eighth bay includes a 20th-century two-storey rectangular bay window. The property features several stacks with ornamental chimney pots. At the front of number 28 is a pair of gate piers and ornamental railings defining the front garden. The rear of the property includes a basement and has canted bay windows in the third and sixth bays. An ornate iron balcony is also present.

Local climate

Numbers 28, 30 and 30a Including Railings and Gate Piers 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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  • Sale history — 14 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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