1 and 3, The Folds is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.
1 and 3, The Folds
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-tallow-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 304 808
- Coordinates
- 53.31988, -3.04483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 3 The Folds are two houses built around 1892 by Grayson and Ould. They feature a timber frame set on a stone base, topped with a hipped roof made of stone slate and tile. The first two bays are single-storey, while the third bay is two-storeys and projects forward under a jettied gable. The first and second bays display simple framing with posts and braces, while the third bay has quatrefoils on the first floor. The windows are leaded casements, mostly consisting of four lights; the third bay includes a five-light canted oriel window and a single light to the right, with a projecting window above. The entrance, located between the first and second bays, is sheltered by a cat-slide canopy, and the door features vertical strips. There are stone cross-axial and return lateral stacks with octagonal shafts. The right return mirrors the third bay, with a jettied gabled first-floor bay above the entrance. A brick stack at the rear has twisted shafts.
Local climate
1 and 3, The Folds sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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