Numbers 20 and 21 with Gatepiers to Number 21 is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1973. A Victorian Houses. 1 related planning application.

Numbers 20 and 21 with Gatepiers to Number 21

WRENN ID
frozen-tin-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1973
Type
Houses
Period
Victorian
Address
Numbers 20 and 21 with Gatepiers to Number 21, Rock Park, CH42 1PJ
OS grid reference
SJ 336 863
Coordinates
53.36999, -2.99889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of houses, Numbers 20 and 21, were built around 1836 as part of the original development of Rock Park, which was laid out by Jonathan Bennison. The houses are of neo-classical design and are constructed of stucco, with the ground floor rusticated. They have Welsh slate roofs. Each house is two storeys high and follows a symmetrical design with a double-pile plan and a side entrance. The slightly advanced outer bays feature a canted bay window to the ground floor and a 12-pane sash window above, set within a moulded architrave. The central bays have tripartite sash windows on the ground floor and a 12-pane sash window above, also within a moulded architrave, with a panelled apron and a double string course. Angle quoins and an eaves cornice are present. The return elevations incorporate a central, round-arched doorway topped by an entablature supported by paired console brackets. All windows in Number 21 have been lowered, and the original mouldings and rustication have been removed; the building is included in the listing due to its group value. Number 20 has square gate piers with stepped pyramidal caps, and cast iron gates featuring an acanthus motif.

Local climate

Numbers 20 and 21 with Gatepiers to Number 21 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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