Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. House. 1 related planning application.

Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
winter-attic-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1965
Type
House
Address
Bridge Cottage, 23, Park Road, CH62 4US
OS grid reference
SJ 337 841
Coordinates
53.3503, -2.99703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage is a house built in 1894 by Douglas and Fordham, located on Bebington Park Road in Port Sunlight. The structure features irregular flint on a brick base with stone dressings and a tile roof that has a hipped end. It stands two storeys tall and consists of two bays, including a canted corner bay and a one-bay return to Bridge Street. The corner bay projects under a shaped gable and has a jettied first floor. There is a cornice at the ground floor level.

The windows are designed with ovolo mullions and leaded glazing. The ground floor windows include transoms, and the first bay has a three-light window with ogee heads, along with a small light that has a decorated lintel to the right of the entrance. The first floor features four-light windows. The entrance is set in an elliptical-arched recess and includes a half-glazed door with a doorcase, also with leaded glazing. The corner bay window on the ground floor and the four-light window on the first floor both have ogee-headed lights. The return side has a tile-hung gable and a canted bay with lights at the angles and a jettied stack. There is a cross-axial stack with twisted shafts. The rear of the building is similar, featuring small-paned casements, a rear stack, and privies. This house was the home of Lord Leverhulme from 1896 to 1897.

Local climate

Bridge Cottage 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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