Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Ventilation station. 2 related planning applications.
Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- other-stair-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Ventilation station
- Address
- Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel, Taylor Street, CH41 1AY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 322 892
- Coordinates
- 53.39604, -3.02015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel, built between 1925 and 1934, was designed by engineers Sir Basil Mott and J.A. Brodie, with architecture by Herbert J. Rowse. This structure features brick-faced steel framed construction and consists of a tower made up of grouped geometric blocks. The tower is mostly blind, with a small doorway on the eastern elevation and double doors on the northern elevation. These doors are original and decorated with chevron and scallop patterns. The architraves are created from rippled brick coursing, featuring wing motifs in the center. The brickwork includes some ornamentation, such as a diamond frieze at the base and a giant cross motif on the largest block. The tops of the towers are highlighted by chevron bands of brickwork, and the largest block has a frieze of recessed panels or slits. This station was built to house fans as part of the ventilation system for the road tunnel.
Local climate
Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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