5 7, Alton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Houses. 1 related planning application.

5 7, Alton Road

WRENN ID
lesser-wattle-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1992
Type
Houses
Address
5 7, Alton Road, CH43 6UB
OS grid reference
SJ 304 877
Coordinates
53.3824, -3.04705
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of houses built around 1850 in Birkenhead. The houses are roughcast render, with a Welsh slate hipped roof. Each house has two storeys and a symmetrical design, with a two-unit plan and an entrance at each end. Each has an outer canted bay window, and an inner 12-pane sash window within a moulded architrave. The upper windows are also 12-pane sashes, set within plain architraves, with a sill band running along the front. Decorative brackets support the moulded eaves cornice. The corners have angle quoins. Chimneys rise from the gables and the central axis. The pair of houses forms a group with numbers 9-11 and 13-15 Alton Road, and these groups were likely built together as part of a speculative development.

Local climate

5 7, 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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