1-4, King Georges Drive and 8-12, The Causeway is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. House. 5 related planning applications.
1-4, King Georges Drive and 8-12, The Causeway
- WRENN ID
- fallen-minaret-laurel
- 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
- Address
- 1-4, King Georges Drive and 8-12, The Causeway, CH62 5DZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 337 845
- Coordinates
- 53.3535, -2.99746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of nine houses built in 1913, designed by J. Lomax Simpson, located in Port Sunlight, and situated at 1-4 King Georges Drive and 8-12 The Causeway. The houses are constructed of brick with stone dressings and some roughcast, with hipped tile roofs. They are arranged over two storeys, with six bays in total. The second and fifth bays project under gables, and the end bay is gabled. The gabled and end bay feature random stone quoins and brick coping, while the diapered end bay has a decorative brick pattern. The roughcast first floor of the third and fourth bays juts out on brackets, with deep, bracketed eaves. The windows are small-paned casements; those in the gabled bays are segmental-headed, and those in the end two bays have diamond panes. The ground floor features a window arrangement of 4:5:5:4-lights, with a four-light canted bay window at the end. The first floor has a four-light window in the second bay and a three-light window in the third. The entrances have plank doors with small-paned lights, with a lean-to porch to the first bay. Three stacks are positioned across the front of the building. The facade facing The Causeway is similar, with paired gable bays that have projecting stacks. The bays between these have projecting paired windows on the first floor, with a panel dated 1913 placed centrally between them. A cross-axial stack is also present. The rear of the houses mirrors the front design.
Local climate
1-4, King Georges Drive and 8-12, The Causeway 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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