The Roft is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Roft
- WRENN ID
- nether-latch-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Roft, 14, Rock Lane East, CH42 1PG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 333 865
- Coordinates
- 53.37192, -3.00292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roft is a house built around 1840, located on Rock Lane East in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead. The building is constructed of stucco and features a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window layout with a central entrance. A large timbered gabled porch was added around 1900, which includes a cambered collar and trefoil panelling. The entrance door is panelled and part-glazed, featuring leaded stained glass panels. The windows on either side of the door are renewed two-light mullioned and transomed windows, which have entablatures supported by console brackets. The upper storey is divided into bays by pilasters and has 12-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves. The overhanging eaves create open pediments for each return gable, and there are paired gable end stacks.
Local climate
The Roft 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 — 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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