Landour is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. House.
Landour
- WRENN ID
- pale-iron-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- Landour, Palm Grove
- OS grid reference
- SJ 305 884
- Coordinates
- 53.38822, -3.0463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Landour is a house dated 1850, likely designed by Walter Scott. It is built of yellow brick with some stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof laid diagonally. The house has two storeys with attics and is designed in a "Jacobethan" style, with a square plan.
The elevation facing Palm Grove consists of three bays, featuring outer Dutch gables, with the right-hand gable being advanced. There is a central entrance that includes an elaborately panelled door and a star-traceried overlight set within a round arched architrave supported by banded shafts. The left-hand bay has paired two-pane sash windows topped with a strapwork cornice, while the right-hand gable, which forms the side elevation to Grosvenor Place, is blank but has stacks corbelled out at the apex.
The elevation to Grosvenor Place presents two gabled bays, each with a squared bay window on the ground floor that contains three and four mullioned and transomed lights. The pilasters and cornice of these bays are decorated with low-relief strapwork. On the first floor, there are mullioned and transomed Venetian windows, which feature a stressed hood mould and keyblock. Additionally, there is a small round-arched sash window in a pedimented case located in the narrow central bay between the gables. A strapwork parapet runs along the eaves level, connecting the Dutch coped gables.
Local climate
Landour 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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