Nos. 1-6 Wilshaw Terrace, Rowan Cottage and the Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Terraced houses, shop.

Nos. 1-6 Wilshaw Terrace, Rowan Cottage and the Stores

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Terraced houses, shop
Address
Nos. 1-6 Wilshaw Terrace, Rowan Cottage and the Stores, Thornton Common Road
OS grid reference
SJ 305 809
Coordinates
53.32127, -3.04415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1 to 6 Wilshaw Terrace, Rowan Cottage, and The Stores is a terrace of seven houses and a shop built in 1870 by Kirk and Sons. The building features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It is two storeys high with seven bays, a corner turret, and a two-bay bow facing Thornton Common Road. There is a flush sill band at the first floor level. The windows have segmental-pointed heads and sashes without glazing bars, with those on the first floor featuring coped gablets.

The round turret has a corbelled sill course at the first floor and a bracketed cornice, topped with a swept conical roof that has a weather vane. The turret displays two roundels inscribed with "JH" and "1870", and the first-floor windows have tympana. The entrances have shouldered segmental heads with pointed hood moulds, and the plank doors are adorned with ornate strap hinges; the door to the turret has a trefoil head and a fanlight.

The end bay is lower and has a stone roof, a canted bay window, and a 20th-century flat-topped dormer. The return features a half-hipped gable with a gablet, and the windows have leaded glazing. The return to Thornton Common Road includes two segmental-pointed shop front openings with hood moulds and 20th-century glazing. The first-floor windows have shouldered lintels, and there is a one-storey round turret to the left with a Lombard frieze, a conical roof, and an entrance with a label mould.

Local climate

Nos. 1-6 Wilshaw Terrace, Rowan Cottage and the Stores sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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