Sonny's on the Square is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Public house.
Sonny's on the Square
- WRENN ID
- former-mortar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Sonny's on the Square, 23 and 25, Argyle Street, Birkenhead
- OS grid reference
- SJ 324 889
- Coordinates
- 53.39297, -3.01739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sonny's on the Square is a public house that was originally built as two houses around 1840. It features an ashlar façade over a brick structure and has a Welsh slate roof. The building stands four storeys high and has a six-window range, which originally consisted of two dwellings, each containing a single room with three windows on the upper floors.
The ground floor showcases a late 19th-century pub front, characterized by three wide segmentally arched windows with stained and etched glass, flanked by round arched doors that have stained glass fanlights above. The ground floor is rusticated and has a cornice above it. The first floor features 12-pane sash windows, some of which have been renewed in their original openings, and these are topped with entablatures. There is a sill band on the second storey and a cornice below the attic storey. The building has brick axial stacks and is part of the original development associated with Hamilton Square, which was planned by James Gillespie Graham.
Local climate
Sonny's on the Square 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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