60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Houses. 1 related planning application.
60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel
- WRENN ID
- silent-ember-swallow
- 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
- Address
- 60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel, Port Sunlight, CH62 5DW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 844
- Coordinates
- 53.35301, -2.99294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises seven houses built in 1914 by J. Lomax Simpson, part of the Port Sunlight estate in Wirral. The building is constructed with roughcast on a brick base, with the first floor clad in tiles and the roof covered in tiles. It is two storeys high and features four bays, with the two central bays projecting forward beneath gables, and the end bays also canted forward. A brick band divides the ground and first floors in the central bays. The windows are small-paned casements. The centre of the building features half-octagonal two-storey bays with ground-floor entablatures and first-floor panelled aprons, and a tile canopy. The end bays have four-light canted bay windows on the ground floor and two-light windows above. The entrances are sheltered by flat canopies, with plank doors featuring leaded lights and flanking windows. The right return includes a projecting stack to the first bay, a gabled second bay, and a jettied first floor on posts to the third and fourth bays, with gabled first-floor windows. A recessed gabled bay is present in the fifth bay. Decorative strapwork is found on the second bay, and a basket brick band on the end bay. The left return is similar in design, but without the end bay. There are five cross-axial stacks. The rear elevation mirrors the design.
Local climate
60 and 62, Bolton Road, 2 and 4, Water Street, and 1, 3, and 5, The Ginnel 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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