17-23, The Folds is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A C19 Terrace of houses.
17-23, The Folds
- WRENN ID
- tall-soffit-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- OS grid reference
- SJ 304 807
- Coordinates
- 53.31935, -3.04535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 17 to 23 on The Folds is a terrace of four houses built around 1892 by Grayson and Ould. The houses feature a timber frame on a stone base, with a stone ground floor in the end bays, shingled gables, and a tiled roof. They are one storey with an attic and consist of four bays. The end bays project forward and have gabled jettied ends. The ground floors have battered walls and cornices with coved eaves. The ground floor windows consist of four lights, and the end bays have double-chamfered mullions. The first floor includes jettied gabled dormers with coving, and the end bays feature six-light canted oriel windows. All windows are fitted with leaded glazing. The entrances have doors with vertical strips and straps, with the central doors covered by a tiled canopy. There are two cross-axial stacks on the roof.
Local climate
17-23, The Folds sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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