Telegraph Station is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Telegraph station. 1 related planning application.
Telegraph Station
- WRENN ID
- odd-tin-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Telegraph station
- Address
- Telegraph Station, Hilbre Island
- OS grid reference
- SJ 184 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38279, -3.22793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Telegraph Station, built in 1841 for the Liverpool Dock Trustees, is a Grade II listed building located on Hilbre Island in Hoylake. It is constructed of painted stone and features a slate roof. The building is a single storey with a distinctive bowed north end, which includes small-paned glazing and four brass gimbals for telescopes. The east facade has a timber platform and an elliptical-headed entrance, while the south end is hipped. This station was part of a relay of seven stations that transmitted information about merchant ships sailing to Liverpool.
Local climate
Telegraph Station 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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