Buoy Master's House and Buoy Store is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. House, store.
Buoy Master's House and Buoy Store
- WRENN ID
- sheer-chamber-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- House, store
- Address
- Buoy Master's House and Buoy Store, Hilbre Island
- OS grid reference
- SJ 184 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38258, -3.22687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buoy Master's House and Buoy Store, built around 1836, is a house and store located on the east side of Hilbre Island in Hoylake. The building features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, designed in an L-shape. The house has two storeys and three bays, with a one-storey wing attached to the left side. The windows are sashed and include glazing bars. The central entrance to the house has an overlight with glazing bars and a four-panel door. The wing, originally used for buoy storage, has mostly been converted for domestic use and features a gable at the end bay with a small bell attached. The south facade has casement windows, while the north side has sashed windows with glazing bars. There is a 20th-century porch at the entrance and a side entrance with paired doors leading to the store in the end bay. The house has two gable-end stacks and a small stack on the wing.
Local climate
Buoy Master's House and Buoy Store sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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