No. 2a, Price Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Office. 2 related planning applications.
No. 2a, Price Street
- WRENN ID
- still-attic-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- No. 2a, Price Street, CH41 6JN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 324 890
- Coordinates
- 53.39356, -3.01777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2A on Price Street in Birkenhead is a building that likely served as offices or service buildings related to Hamilton Square, constructed around 1860 to 1870. It features an ashlar façade with a rusticated ground floor and has a later 20th-century Welsh slate mansard roof. The building is two stories tall and has a five-window range. While the lower windows have been replaced, the original round-arched openings remain intact above. From 1894 until 1906, this building was used as the studio for the Della Robbia pottery, founded by Harold Rathbone. It is noted for its group value and historic significance.
Local climate
No. 2a, Price 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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