70 72, WHETSTONE LANE (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. A 19th Century Houses. 1 related planning application.
70 72, WHETSTONE LANE (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- ancient-storey-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Houses
- Period
- 19th Century
- Address
- 70 72, WHETSTONE LANE (See details for further address information), CH41 2TG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 316 882
- Coordinates
- 53.38631, -3.0291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 70 and 72 Whetstone Lane, along with Nos. 1 and 3 Park Grove, form a group of four houses built around 1850. They are constructed of brick and feature a concrete tiled roof with deeply overhanging eaves. The buildings are two storeys high, with a narrow six-window range facing Park Grove and another six-window range facing Whetstone Lane.
The Park Grove elevation includes two projecting porches with four-panelled doors and two-light windows, although one window is now blocked. The Whetstone Lane elevation is highlighted by a tall central gable that has a wide architrave surrounding a tripartite casement window with margin lights. There are also two-light mullioned and transomed windows with flat-arched heads, featuring cast-iron balconies above, as well as two segment-headed windows in the attic. Each flanking block consists of two bays with tall casement windows, and there is a doorway in the left-hand block. The houses have end wall stacks.
Local climate
70 72, WHETSTONE LANE (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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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