288-292, New Chester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. House.

288-292, New Chester Road

WRENN ID
twelfth-jade-marsh
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
OS grid reference
SJ 340 845
Coordinates
53.35344, -2.99161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 288, 290, and 292 on New Chester Road are three houses built in 1898 by Grayson and Ould. The buildings feature a mix of plaster, brick, terracotta, and tile-hung gables, topped with a hipped tile roof. They are two storeys tall and consist of four bays, with the third and fourth bays projecting and featuring gabled jettied first floors supported by bracketed bressumers. The first two bays of the ground floor are constructed of brick and have a cornice.

The windows include leaded casements, with the ground floor showcasing a five-light canted bay window with a hipped roof in the first bay, a three-light window with a stone lintel in the second bay, and five-light canted oriels on corbelled bases in the third and fourth bays. The first floor has cross mullion windows in gabled half dormers adorned with crockets and finials, along with traceried parapets in the first two bays. The third and fourth bays feature five-light casements with transoms and blind central lights.

The entrances are framed with architraves and have plank doors. The building includes two cross-axial stacks, with a left return entrance and half dormers, and a right return lateral stack with a hipped projection. The rear of the houses is similar in style, featuring gabled dormers and privies.

Local climate

288-292, 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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