Oaklea is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1973. House.
Oaklea
- WRENN ID
- eastward-lancet-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oaklea, Rock Park Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 337 862
- Coordinates
- 53.36933, -2.99734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oaklea is a house built around 1840, featuring an ashlar façade and a Welsh slate roof. It is designed in a simple Neo-classical style and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay layout. The central bay has a pedimented gable and a projecting porch. The porch contains a doorway on its side elevation, which has a four-panelled door and an entablature supported by brackets. Above the porch, there are nine and twelve-pane sash windows, with similar windows flanking it on both floors. The building is accented by full-height angle pilasters. The elevation facing the Esplanade mirrors this design, showcasing twelve-pane sash windows in the central bay and casement windows in the outer bays. The house features lateral and end wall stacks. Additionally, a single-storey service wing was added to the left side in the early 20th century, which has a Westmorland slate roof and a Venetian window that cuts into the eaves cornice.
Local climate
Oaklea 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
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