22, ARGYLE STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Shop, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
22, ARGYLE STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- half-ledge-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- 22, ARGYLE STREET (See details for further address information), CH41 6JN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 324 889
- Coordinates
- 53.39323, -3.01775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 22 Argyle Street, which also includes No. 1 Price Street, is a shop that was originally a dwelling, built around 1850. The building features an ashlar facade and a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys high with a two-window range on the Argyle Street side, including a blind central window, and a three-window return on Price Street. The Argyle Street elevation has a late-19th century projecting shop front with segmentally arched windows and brackets supporting a renewed fascia. Above this, there is a 15-pane sash window, a blind central window, and an unmoulded pediment over a continuous sill band. The upper storey has renewed sash windows in their original openings. On the Price Street elevation, the ground floor is rusticated with a blocked window to the left, and there are two-pane sash windows beside the door. The first floor features 12-pane sash windows with a continuous sill band, and the upper windows are renewed in original openings. The building has an end wall and lateral stacks.
Local climate
22, ARGYLE STREET (See details for further address information) 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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