53 55, The Woodlands is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
53 55, The Woodlands
- WRENN ID
- rough-doorway-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 53 55, The Woodlands, CH41 2SJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 318 884
- Coordinates
- 53.38845, -3.02584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of houses located at 53 and 55 The Woodlands, Birkenhead, dating from approximately 1840. They were likely designed by Walter Scott as part of the original Clifton Park development, which he laid out from the early 1840s.
The houses are constructed with ashlar facing and have a Welsh slate roof. Each unit has a 3-bay plan, with a separate entrance at each end. Each entrance is set within a projecting, single-storey porch with steps leading up to a door within a heavily emphasised architrave. The ground floor is rusticated, featuring pivotal windows with 15 panes, replacing the original sash windows. The openings have stressed voussoirs. Above, the 9-pane windows are similarly framed within stressed architraves, accompanied by aprons and a pediment over the central window. A continuous sill band runs along the facade, and the building is finished with a moulded eaves cornice, overhanging eaves, and axial stacks.
Local climate
53 55, The Woodlands 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 — 7 transactions since 1998
- 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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