Numbers 16 and 17 with Gatepiers to Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1973. Pair of houses.
Numbers 16 and 17 with Gatepiers to Street
- WRENN ID
- roaming-buttress-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1973
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Numbers 16 and 17 with Gatepiers to Street, Rock Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 336 864
- Coordinates
- 53.37059, -2.99856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 16 and 17 are a pair of houses built around 1836, featuring an ashlar facade and a Welsh slate roof. Designed in a Neo-classical style, they are two storeys high and each house has a symmetrical three-window range with a double-pile plan and outer hipped gabled wings. The central entrance is located in a full-height porch with a pyramidal roof at the angle formed by the wings. Each house has a six-panelled door set in a moulded stone architrave, with a narrow window above it. On each floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, although the lower window on the right side of house number 16 is partially obscured by an added lean-to verandah. The houses feature overhanging eaves and end wall stacks.
The rear elevation mirrors the front, with similar outer hipped gabled wings and canted bays on the ground floor. A balcony supported by cast-iron columns and stone brackets, adorned with ornate wrought iron railings, spans the central range. At the street front, there are paired gate piers with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. These houses are part of the original Rock Park development, which was laid out in 1836 by J. Bennison.
Local climate
Numbers 16 and 17 with Gatepiers to 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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