56-66, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Shop, public house. 1 related planning application.
56-66, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- eastward-kitchen-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Shop, public house
- Address
- 56-66, Market Street, CH41 5BT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 324 888
- Coordinates
- 53.39253, -3.01679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of six shops and a public house dating to around 1850, located on Market Street in Birkenhead. The building is constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high, with each section originally having a two-window facade. Shops have been inserted into the ground floor, and the public house occupies Nos. 60-62. An original shop front remains at No. 58, featuring a fascia with console brackets on either side. Upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes, with 9-pane sashes in the attic storey. These windows have flat-arched painted heads and a continuous sill band to the first floor. The building has end wall stacks.
Local climate
56-66, Market Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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