Number 12 and 14 with Area Railings and Gatepiers to Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Pair of houses. 2 related planning applications.

Number 12 and 14 with Area Railings and Gatepiers to Front Garden

WRENN ID
riven-lantern-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Pair of houses
Address
Number 12 and 14 with Area Railings and Gatepiers to Front Garden, Ashville Road, CH43 8SA
OS grid reference
SJ 304 890
Coordinates
53.3933, -3.0475
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of houses dating from approximately 1840 to 1850, possibly designed by Walter Scott. They are constructed of brick with stone dressings and have a Welsh slate roof. The houses are in a simple Tudor style and are symmetrical. Originally each house had two bays, with a basement level. There are side entrances; the right-hand house has an ogee-arched door, while the left-hand house features a single-storey gabled porch with a renewed doorway in an ogee arch. The wide, outer gabled bays have attics. The mullions of the windows are now missing. A narrower inner bay has two inserted doors and original window openings, again with missing mullions. Gablets are positioned above the upper windows. Axial and end wall stacks are present, featuring diagonal flues. Cast iron spearhead railings define the basement area. Each house has paired panelled gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps.

Local climate

Number 12 and 14 with Area Railings and Gatepiers to Front Garden 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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