26-32, York Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Terrace of houses. 1 related planning application.

26-32, York Street

WRENN ID
sleeping-obsidian-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
26-32, York Street, CH62 4TY
OS grid reference
SJ 348 842
Coordinates
53.35134, -2.98015
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of four houses, numbers 26 to 32 York Street, was built around 1854 as part of a planned village for the Price’s Patent Candle Company, representing one of the earliest examples of a model industrial village. The houses are constructed of brick with hipped slate roofs. They are arranged over two storeys and have eight bays. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, each with a gauged-brick flat arch above. The entrances feature Tudor-arched surrounds with fanlights containing glazing bars, originally with four-panel doors. Numbers 26 and 28 now have 20th-century replacement doors. Three chimney stacks are positioned across the front of the building. The rear elevations include gabled wings.

Local climate

26-32, York 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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