Fearnley is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1975. House.

Fearnley

WRENN ID
forgotten-marble-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1975
Type
House
Address
Fearnley, 42, the Woodlands
OS grid reference
SJ 318 883
Coordinates
53.38788, -3.02685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fearnley is a house, now subdivided, that was originally known as Fearnley Hall. It was built in 1843 by Walter Scott. The building features an ashlar façade and a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys with attics, consisting of a long main range and a shorter parallel front range with a gabled wing. The entrance is located at the angle of the rear range and the wing, featuring a gabled canted porch with a four-centred arched doorway, hood-mould, and decorative spandrels.

The side wall of the wing has a tier of windows, including a three-light mullioned window on the first floor with a stepped hood mould above it, and a traceried window in the dormer above. The gable wall has an expressed chimney that is corbelled out, displaying the date in a shield and three diagonal flues. The front range has a three-window arrangement, with two bays marked by gabled dormers, each containing a three-light mullioned window, and a narrower bay adjacent to the wing.

On the return elevation facing Fearnley Street, there are four-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor beneath a gabled dormer, topped by an octagonal lantern turret. Fearnley is part of the original development of Clifton Park, which was laid out by Scott in the early 1840s.

Local climate

Fearnley 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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