6, Duncan Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1990. A C1830 House.

6, Duncan Street

WRENN ID
tall-rampart-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 May 1990
Type
House
OS grid reference
SJ 326 888
Coordinates
53.3926, -3.01471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 6 Duncan Street is a house, currently used as offices, built around 1830. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and a five-window range. It has a single-depth plan with a central entrance hall and an off-set stair leading to the rear, along with a two-storey rear wing. The entrance consists of a plain central door with an overlight, and each floor has 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched painted brick heads. The window heads are concealed by a heavy wooden eaves cornice on the second storey. There is also a tall 24-pane sash stair window on the right-hand return. The building has coped gables and end wall stacks.

Local climate

6, Duncan 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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