Clover Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Almshouses.
Clover Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bracket-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Clover Almshouses, Bidston Village Road, Bidston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 282 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40445, -3.08037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clover Almshouses are a pair of almshouses built in 1901 by Woolfall and Eccles. They feature coursed and squared stonework with a stone flagged half hipped roof. The buildings are single-storeyed, each designed with a double-pile, two-unit plan and an outer doorway set in a slight recess. The doors are from the late 20th century but retain the original moulded architraves. Each almshouse has a three-light mullioned window in a blind arched recess, with an advanced central bay topped by a segmental gable. There are paired three-light mullioned windows divided by a pilaster, all beneath a continuous stepped hoodmould. A short pilaster supports a low-relief coat of arms in a niche above. The end wall and axial stacks feature diagonal flues. An inscription in the central gable states, "Erected to the Memory of George Robert Clover by Emily Clover his widow A.D. 1901."
Local climate
Clover Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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