23-31, Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Shop, dwelling.
23-31, Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- mired-latch-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- OS grid reference
- SJ 326 891
- Coordinates
- 53.39451, -3.01357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23-31 Bridge Street is a terrace of eight shops and dwellings built in the mid-19th century. The building is faced with ashlar stone and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys high, featuring a six-window range on Hamilton Street and a ten-window range on Bridge Street, with rounded corners at each end of the Bridge Street elevation. The design includes full-height pilasters over the ground floor and pediments above the first-floor windows, which are emphasized by the rounded angles and flanking bays.
The late 19th-century shop fronts on the Bridge Street elevation are symmetrically arranged, with paired segmentally-arched doors in the central section and plain outer doors with three-light windows, most of which are now boarded up. Pilasters define the shop fronts, and there is a plain fascia with a moulded head above. The Hamilton Street elevation features similar shop fronts with wide outer doors.
Above the shop fronts, there are 12-pane sash windows (with 9 panes in the attic storey) set in moulded architraves with entablatures, and continuous sill bands. A moulded cornice and parapet run along the top of the building. The corner and two adjacent bays on the Hamilton Street elevation are highlighted with full-height pilasters.
On the short return elevation to Albion Street, there are two bays with pedimented windows on the first floor, also articulated by full-height pilasters. This elevation includes a moulded segmentally-arched door and a three-light shop window. Beyond this, there is a lower two-storey block with two blocked windows on the ground floor and two 12-pane sash windows above, topped with plain parapet eaves.
No. 9 Hamilton Street is a separate building, standing three storeys tall with a four-window range. It has an inserted shop front with a continuous moulding over the fascia, which may be from an earlier design. The first floor features 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves with entablatures above. Gable and axial stacks are present throughout the building.
Local climate
23-31, Bridge 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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