Nos. 1 to 4 (consec) D'Arcy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.

Nos. 1 to 4 (consec) D'Arcy Cottages

WRENN ID
drifting-clay-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
House
Address
Nos. 1 to 4 (consec) D'Arcy Cottages, Raby Road, Thornton Hough
OS grid reference
SJ 305 807
Coordinates
53.31939, -3.04379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1 to 4 D'Arcy Cottages is a terrace of four houses built in 1906 by J. Lomax Simpson. The cottages are constructed of stone and roughcast with a slate roof and rise to two storeys, featuring five bays. The first bay is made of stone and projects under a gable, while the second and third bays are roughcast with a jettied first floor supported by a bracketed bressumer. The fourth bay also projects under a jettied gable and has a canted ground floor made of stone with a roughcast first floor. The fifth bay features a canted angle and a hipped roof.

The windows in the stone sections have double-chamfered mullions. The first bay includes a two-storey canted bay window with a configuration of 1:4:1 lights, and similar windows are found on the ground floor of the fourth bay and the first floor of the fifth bay. The second and third bays have five-light casements on the ground floor and four-light hipped half dormers on the first floor. The fourth bay features a five-light canted oriel window under the jettied gable. All windows are fitted with leaded glazing.

The entrances are located in the center and consist of plank doors with small-paned lights, while the end bays have elliptical-headed entrances. The first bay has a hipped porch, and the end bay features a lintel with a date. The returns of the cottages have projecting gabled roughcast bays, two lateral stacks, and three additional stacks.

Local climate

Nos. 1 to 4 (consec) D'Arcy Cottages 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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