268-274, New Chester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Houses.

268-274, New Chester Road

WRENN ID
sacred-shingle-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1965
Type
Houses
OS grid reference
SJ 340 846
Coordinates
53.35435, -2.99227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 268 to 274 on New Chester Road are four houses built in 1898 by architects Douglas and Minshull. The buildings are constructed of brick with a plaster first floor and feature tiled roofs. They are two storeys high and consist of four bays, with the first bay recessed by one bay and topped with a half-hipped gable. The first floors of the houses jet out over the ground floor.

The windows include 4-light leaded casements, with the ground floor windows featuring gauged-brick cambered arches. The first bay has a prominent 6-light canted bay window with two lights on the return, while the first floor has canted oriel windows on the second, third, and fourth bays. The entrances are marked by stone lintels and three-panel doors with leaded lights.

The houses also have a cross-axial stack and a projecting lateral stack that features decorative diapering, along with a gable on the return of the first bay. There is a projecting gable-end stack with diagonal flues on weathered bases at the return of the second bay. Additionally, decorative rainwater heads are present. The rear of the houses is similar in design to the front.

Local climate

268-274, New Chester Road 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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