2-14, Central Road Including, 1-13, Lancaster Close and 11-21 Primrose Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Flats.
2-14, Central Road Including, 1-13, Lancaster Close and 11-21 Primrose Hill
- WRENN ID
- muted-storey-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1965
- Type
- Flats
- Address
- 2-14, Central Road Including, 1-13, Lancaster Close and 11-21 Primrose Hill, CH62 5EJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 336 850
- Coordinates
- 53.35773, -2.9988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building complex, located on Central Road in Port Sunlight, consists of 26 flats and was constructed in 1906 by architects Bradshaw and Gass. The structure features red brick on a blue brick base, with yellow terracotta dressings and slate roofs.
The building is two storeys high and has eight bays, with a two-bay canted corner and eight bays facing Primrose Hill. The third and sixth bays project under coped gables with pilaster strips, while the central bays break forward under a cat-slide roof. There is a flush sill band, and the ground floor is adorned with four-light mullioned windows that have decorative key stones and drip moulds. The first floor includes a central hipped dormer with three-light windows flanking a stack with a gabled base. The gabled bays feature Diocletian windows, and the second and seventh bays have three-light flat-topped half-dormers. The end bays are topped with parapets over two-light mullioned windows, and all first-floor windows have small-paned casements.
Entrances to the central bays are marked by four-centred arches leading to canted recesses, with plank doors that include small-paned lights. The end canted porches enhance the entrance design. The corner bays have jettied gabled first floors with timber-framing. The facade facing Primrose Hill is similar to the main facade. The rear of the building provides access to Lancaster Close, featuring a 20th-century ground floor, while the first floor has sash windows without glazing bars.
Local climate
2-14, Central Road Including, 1-13, Lancaster Close and 11-21 Primrose Hill 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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