Candle Factory Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1986. Industrial building.
Candle Factory Court
- WRENN ID
- watchful-parapet-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1986
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Candle Factory Court, Marshall Close, Bromborough, CH62 4AD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 345 843
- Coordinates
- 53.35237, -2.98493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Candle Factory Court is an industrial building constructed in 1853 for James and George Wilson. It is made of brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. The structure is three storeys high and consists of five by eight bays, with later extensions added. A central tower is flanked by two gabled bays on either side, with the right bay being recessed. The building features first and second floor sill bands and a top frieze. The windows have lintels and small-panel casements, with round-headed recesses between the first and second, and third and fourth bays. The tower includes triple round-headed lights and a clock face, along with deep eaves and a pyramidal roof. The right return of the building has similar architectural details, with the fifth bay projecting under a gable, and the sixth to eighth bays being two storeys high and gabled. Some windows are sashed with glazing bars, and there is a 20th-century porch. This building is part of a planned village for Price's Patent Candle Company, which is one of the earliest examples of a model industrial village.
Local climate
Candle Factory Court 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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