13 15, Alton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Pair of houses. 4 related planning applications.
13 15, Alton Road
- WRENN ID
- turning-jade-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 13 15, Alton Road, CH43 6UB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 304 878
- Coordinates
- 53.38271, -3.04724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating from around 1850, located on Alton Road in Oxton, Birkenhead. The houses are constructed with roughcast render and have a Welsh slate roof. They are symmetrically designed, each with a two-unit plan and an entrance at each end. The exterior features canted bays with round-arched panes in the sash windows, while the inner windows are 12-pane sashes set within moulded architraves. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes in plain architraves, with a decorative sill band running along the front. Bracketed eaves cornices are present, and angle quoins define the corners. Gable and axial stacks provide ventilation. The pair forms a group with numbers 5-7 and 9-11 Alton Road, and it is believed that these three pairs of houses were originally built together as a speculative development, as evidenced by a plan from 1858 by Mills and Fletcher.
Local climate
13 15, Alton 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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