Numbers 1 and 2 with Walling and Area Railings, and Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1973. House.

Numbers 1 and 2 with Walling and Area Railings, and Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front

WRENN ID
frozen-chapel-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1973
Type
House
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 with Walling and Area Railings, and Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front, Rock Park
OS grid reference
SJ 334 866
Coordinates
53.37275, -3.00119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2 are a pair of houses built around 1836, located in Rock Park, Rock Ferry. They feature an ashlar façade with rusticated quoins and a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. The houses are two stories tall with a basement and have a symmetrical layout, each with a side entrance and a double-pile, two-unit plan.

The architectural style is enriched classical, with projecting single-storey porches on either side that have panelled doors, architraves with console brackets, and a parapet. The front has a four-window range that was originally symmetrical. The lower windows are round-arched sashes, although in No. 2, one has been replaced by a bow window. The basement features renewed spearhead railings. The upper windows are 8-pane sashes, also renewed, set in shouldered architraves with a key stone and entablature above.

At the eaves level, there is a stone-carved frieze, and both gable and axial stacks are present. The river frontage to the east is enhanced with decorative stonework, including 8-pane sash windows with segmental pediments on brackets, flanked by blind niches that suggest Venetian tripartite windows on the upper storey. The first floor has tripartite sashes with key-blocks and stone balconies, although these have been replaced in No. 2. Similar tripartite windows are found on the ground floor. The gate piers on the street elevation are square with moulded caps, although one is missing.

These houses are part of the Rock Park development, which was laid out by Jonathan Bennison in 1836-1837.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 with Walling and Area Railings, and Railings, Wall and Gatepiers to Front 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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