42, Clifton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. House.
42, Clifton Road
- WRENN ID
- ancient-soffit-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 319 881
- Coordinates
- 53.38619, -3.02507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 42 Clifton Road, built around 1840 to 1850 by Walter Scott. It features an ashlar façade and a Welsh slate roof. The house is single-storeyed but has a full basement at the rear due to the sloping site, and it is designed in a gothic style.
The elevation facing Hollybank Road includes an advanced gabled wing on the left, which has a traceried window in the Perpendicular style with an ogival hoodmould, as well as a quatrefoil lancet on the inner face. The gable bargeboards are decorated with quatrefoil panels. To the right, there is a stressed gable above the doorway, which features paired panelled arched doors accessed by steps, flanked by octagonal piers and topped with a fretted stone parapet.
On the elevation facing Clifton Street, there is a gable to the left that includes a shallow canted bay window with trefoiled lancets and a hipped roof. The house has axial and side wall stacks that are enriched with reeded flues, barley sugar swags, and heavy octagonal caps. This house is part of the original development of Clifton Park, which was laid out by Scott as a villa estate.
Local climate
42, Clifton Road 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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