262-266, New Chester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. House.
262-266, New Chester Road
- WRENN ID
- inner-basalt-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1965
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 846
- Coordinates
- 53.35454, -2.99243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 262, 264, and 266 on New Chester Road are three houses built between 1896 and 1898 by architect William Owen. The buildings are constructed of brick with a plaster first floor, featuring tile-hung gables adorned with fishscale bands and topped with a hipped tile roof. They are two storeys tall and consist of three bays. The first floor of the first bay juts out on a bracket and post beneath an asymmetrical gable, while the second bay has a gable. A cornice runs along the ground floor. The windows are 4-light leaded casements, with the ground floor windows of the second and third bays featuring gauged-brick cambered arches. The first floor of the third bay includes a flat-topped dormer. The entrances are elliptical-headed with plank doors, except for the entrance to the first bay, which is straight-headed. There are two cross-axial stacks and a lateral stack on the left return, with the entrance located on the right return. The rainwater heads are dated 1896. The rear of the houses is similar in style.
Local climate
262-266, New Chester Road 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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