28 30, Devonshire Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
28 30, Devonshire Road
- WRENN ID
- weathered-fireplace-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 28 30, Devonshire Road, CH43 1TW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 307 883
- Coordinates
- 53.38776, -3.04336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pair of houses at 28 and 30 Devonshire Road, Birkenhead, were constructed around 1845 to 1850 by Charles Reed as part of the original planned development of Claughton, commissioned by Sir William Jackson from the early 1840s. The houses are built of stucco with a Welsh slate roof. They are two storeys high, each with a double-depth plan and a side entrance.
The front elevation is symmetrical. The outer bays are slightly advanced and feature a canted bay window to the ground floor and a two-light window above. The lower windows are set within architraves, with stressed quoins. The inner bay has two-light windows on each floor; a cast-iron balcony is present on the first-floor windows of the left-hand house. A central, round-arched blank panel is a prominent feature. Round-arched, hipped-roofed porches flank the central area, each containing a four-panelled door with a stressed architrave. Axial and end wall stacks are present.
Local climate
28 30, Devonshire 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 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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