Former Dower House to Poulton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1975. Church hall.

Former Dower House to Poulton Hall

WRENN ID
fallen-brass-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1975
Type
Church hall
Address
Former Dower House to Poulton Hall, Chorley Way
OS grid reference
SJ 334 823
Coordinates
53.33349, -3.00072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former dower house to Poulton Hall, built in 1843, is located on the south side of Chorley Way in Bebington. Initially used as a church (Holy Trinity) at the time of listing, it became a church hall after a new church was constructed in 1987. The building features pebble-dash walls with painted ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It is two stories high with five bays; the fifth bay projects forward under a crow-stepped gable and has a prominent stack adorned with a lozenge and coat of arms.

The windows are detailed with architraves, with ground floor windows featuring label moulds and ovolo mullions for the two-light windows in the first two bays, while the fourth bay has a single light. The first floor includes two-light single-chamfered mullioned windows with crow-stepped gables in the first three bays, and the fourth bay has a single triangular-headed light. All windows are sashed. A 20th-century gabled porch with a round-headed entrance is present, along with cross-axial and rear stacks.

The right return has three bays similar to the main facade, with ground floor windows that include transoms and first floor windows arranged in a 2:4:2-light configuration, featuring gablets with finials. All windows on this side have casements. The left return includes a 20th-century porch and a merlon. The rear of the building is more utilitarian, with the first bay recessed under a gable, featuring one crow-stepped gablet and an end wing with a single-pitched roof. Although it was built as a dower house for Poulton Hall, it has not been used for that purpose.

Local climate

Former Dower House to Poulton Hall 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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