240 and 242, New Chester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Houses.
240 and 242, New Chester Road
- WRENN ID
- strange-timber-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1965
- Type
- Houses
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 847
- Coordinates
- 53.35519, -2.99298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 240 and 242 on New Chester Road are a pair of houses built in 1898 by Grayson and Ould. They are constructed of brick with a plaster first floor and feature terracotta dormers, topped with a hipped tile roof. The buildings are one storey with an attic and consist of two bays. A cornice runs along the ground floor. The ground floor includes five-light canted bay windows with leaded casements and hipped roofs. The first floor features cross-mullion windows with gabled half dormers that have crockets and finials, along with traceried parapets. The entrances are fitted with plank doors, and there is a cross-axial stack. The returns of the houses have buttresses that are flush with the front, and the rear is similar in design.
Local climate
240 and 242, New Chester 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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