Nos. 25 and 27, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. A Mid C19 Shops. 1 related planning application.
Nos. 25 and 27, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- long-balcony-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Shops
- Address
- Nos. 25 and 27, Market Street, CH41 5BS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 325 888
- Coordinates
- 53.39213, -3.01622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 25 and 27 on Market Street in Birkenhead are a pair of shops built around 1850. The buildings are faced with ashlar and have a Welsh slate roof. They rise four storeys high and consist of two bays. The ground floor features two shop units, which were disused at the time of the survey, and has a continuous moulded cornice above renewed fascias. Above the ground floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, some of which are missing, with entablatures supported by brackets over the first-floor windows. The attic storey has 6-pane sashes. There are plain bands below the first and second floor windows, and a heavy moulded cornice below the attic storey. The buildings also have a moulded eaves cornice and gable end stacks. To the left, there is a narrow stuccoed doorway that provides access to a side entrance. Additionally, there is a blocked door in a stilted archway, which features heavy stuccoed quoins and a cornice above.
Local climate
Nos. 25 and 27, Market 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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