Former stables to Thornton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Stable, house.
Former stables to Thornton House
- WRENN ID
- worn-cellar-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Stable, house
- Address
- Former stables to Thornton House, Thornton Common Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 305 809
- Coordinates
- 53.32122, -3.04358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stables to Thornton House, built in 1895 by Grayson and Ould, are now two houses. Constructed from red and buff stone with a tiled roof, the main range is a single storey with an attic and consists of five bays, with additional one-storey return ranges. The stonework features a random pattern and includes a ground floor sill course. The windows have leaded casements, while the first floor has dormers with coped gables and kneelers. The second, third, and fifth bays contain two-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows, while the others likely originally had loading doors. There is a 20th-century entrance in the fourth bay. The left return has roughcast at the end and a carriage entrance with 20th-century glazing, a segmental-headed window, and a roof dormer above with a pyramidal roof. The right return, which is one bay, serves as the main range with a garage extension. Two battered stacks are present. The outer facade features casement windows, and one corner has a round turret with a conical roof adjacent to a timbered gable and a lean-to porch. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Former stables to Thornton House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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