Royden House including gatepiers and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
Royden House including gatepiers and railings
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-minaret-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Royden House including gatepiers and railings, 83, Park Road North, Birkenhead, CH41 4HD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 311 892
- Coordinates
- 53.39543, -3.0371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Royden House is a pair of houses, built around 1843-7, now subdivided into flats. The houses are constructed of ashlar stone with a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. They are designed in an Italianate style and have a square plan with a prominent central entrance.
The front facing Park Road North has eight windows, with a central bay projecting forward. An arcaded porch, raised on steps and divided by pilasters into three bays, provides access. The roofline has a balustraded parapet. Above the entrance doorway is a triangular pediment enclosing a tripartite window. The ground floor features three round-arched sash windows on each side of the central bay, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes with decorative entablatures supported by brackets. The attic storey has low nine-pane sash windows set within emphasised architraves.
The garden front has a four-window arrangement, with the central bay slightly advanced. The ground floor is finished with channelled ashlar, and features tripartite windows in the outer bays and paired round-headed sash windows in the centre, all accentuated with voussoirs. Royden House was originally built as part of the development of Birkenhead Park.
Local climate
Royden House including gatepiers and railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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