Numbers 140 and 142 with Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Pair of houses. 3 related planning applications.
Numbers 140 and 142 with Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front
- WRENN ID
- fallow-steel-vermeil
- 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
- Numbers 140 and 142 with Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front, Whetstone Lane, CH41 2TQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 319 880
- Coordinates
- 53.3849, -3.02528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dating from the 1840s to 1850s, likely designed by Walter Scott. The houses are constructed with ashlar facing and have a Welsh slate roof. They are two storeys high with a basement, each house having a two-unit plan and a central entrance. The front elevation is symmetrical with a six-window range. The ground floor is in rusticated ashlar. Doorways are raised and accessed by steps, featuring cast iron spearhead railings. The doors are deep-fielded, eight-panelled, with rectangular overlights set in stressed architraves with an entablature. Flanking the doors are tripartite sash windows with decorative cast iron colonettes, with horizontal divisions to the panes. A rosette frieze runs above the ground-floor windows. The first floor has twelve-pane sashes, set in architraves with stressed entablatures, and recessed panelled aprons beneath all windows. An enriched cornice with modillions runs along the eaves. The building has gable and axial stacks. A low stone wall runs along the front of the properties, with gate piers marking the boundary.
Local climate
Numbers 140 and 142 with Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front 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 — 12 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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