1, Cavendish Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. House.
1, Cavendish Road
- WRENN ID
- hushed-sandstone-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 307 892
- Coordinates
- 53.39532, -3.04308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Cavendish Road is a house that was built as a lodge for Birkenhead Park between 1843 and 1847 by architects Lewis Hornblower and John Robertson. The building is constructed of snecked rubble and features a Welsh slate roof, designed in a picturesque Tudor style. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan with a gable on the left side and a doorway located in a projecting gabled porch. There is a square, projecting three-light mullioned window in the gable, topped with a parapet, and a two-light window above it. A small dormer window is situated above the doorway, and there is a chimney stack with cylindrical and diagonal flues that are corbelled out alongside the building, along with an additional similar stack on the side wall of the gabled wing. This lodge is part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, which was designed by Joseph Paxton during the same period.
Local climate
1, Cavendish 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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