56, Hamilton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Commercial premises. 1 related planning application.
56, Hamilton Street
- WRENN ID
- fallow-joist-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- 56, Hamilton Street, CH41 5AE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 325 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39169, -3.01642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Hamilton House is a commercial building located on Hamilton Street in Birkenhead, dated 1907. It features a brick construction with a rusticated stone basement storey and stone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is designed in a free classical style and stands three storeys tall.
It has an asymmetrical but regular four-window layout, with the entrance positioned to the right. The main entrance consists of a round-arched door set within a pedimented case, supported by Doric columns on high bases. To the left of the entrance, there are three segmentally-arched windows that display stressed voussoirs and key blocks. There is also a narrow side doorway to the right of the principal entrance, which has a date inscribed in a shield above it.
A cornice runs above the ground floor, and the first-floor sash windows are framed with stone architraves featuring six panes in the upper lights. The upper windows have shallow segmental mouldings on their architraves. The building is finished with brackets supporting a modillion eaves cornice and has coped gables with banded end wall stacks.
Local climate
56, Hamilton Street 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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- 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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