17-23, Wood Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. House.
17-23, Wood Street
- WRENN ID
- strange-nave-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1965
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 337 840
- Coordinates
- 53.34936, -2.99597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of four houses located at 17-23 Wood Street, built in 1894 by Douglas and Fordham. The houses are constructed of brick with granite chip rendering on the first floor, featuring plaster gables and a hipped tile roof. The building is two storeys high with four gabled bays. The first floor juts out over the ground floor, supported by a decorated bressumer and timber Doric columns with dosserets. There are brick quoins between the first-floor bays.
The windows consist of small-paned casements, with five-light canted bay windows on the ground floor. The first floor features a four-light canted oriel window and two single light windows in the center. The gables are adorned with roundels and strapwork pargetting that includes figures. The entrances have decorated lintels and doors with vertical strips, strap hinges, and three leaded lights. There are two cross-axial stacks with gablets on the returns. The rear of the houses is similar in style and includes privies.
Local climate
17-23, Wood 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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