Sphinx on lawn in front of nos. 5 to 19 (odd) Bath Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Sculpture. 5 related planning applications.
Sphinx on lawn in front of nos. 5 to 19 (odd) Bath Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-kitchen-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Sculpture
- Address
- Sphinx on lawn in front of nos. 5 to 19 (odd) Bath Street, Port Sunlight, CH62 4UL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 338 843
- Coordinates
- 53.35149, -2.99524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sculpture known as the Sphinx is located on the lawn in front of numbers 5 to 19 (odd) Bath Street in Port Sunlight. It was likely created around 1896. The base is made of concrete and was originally covered with stucco. It features a stone cap and a female sphinx, although the head of the sphinx is missing. The cap is decorated with an anthemion frieze and cornice, and there have been concrete repairs made to the sculpture.
Local climate
Sphinx on lawn in front of nos. 5 to 19 (odd) Bath 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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