Tranmere is a suburb of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains seven buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The area is partly residential and partly industrial. The listed buildings consist of two churches, a house, a cross shaft, and a drinking fountain.
The cross fragment in Victoria Park is in stone. It consists of a chamfered shaft on a chamfered base, standing on three steps. The cross was erected on its present site in 1937.[2][3]
The church was originally in brick. In 1873–76 J. Francis Doyle added a chancel and transepts in sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, the original part becoming the nave. A northeast steeple was added in 1879; this consists of a two-stage tower with a stair turret, on top of which is an embattledparapet and a broach spire with lucarnes. The windows are in Decorated style.[4][5]
A stuccoed house with a Welsh slate roof in two storeys and four bays. The first three bays are symmetrical and have a central doorway with a gable over the middle bay. The porch extends as a verandah over the ground floor square bay windows. The other windows are casements, and the right bay is flat-roofed.[6]
The church was designed by W. and J. Hay, and is built in red sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. It consists of a nave, transepts, a chancel with a south vestry, and a large steeple to the north of the chancel. The steeple consists of a tower with angle buttresses, one containing a stair turret. On the top of the tower are angle pinnacles, and a broach spire with lucarnes. The windows are in Decorated style.[2][7]
The drinking fountain is set into the wall of the former Tranmere abattoir. It is in copper-coated cast iron and has a flutedterracottacanopy. It consists of a basin fed by a lion's-head spout on a half-column. Under this is a dog basin fed by two lion's-head spouts. There is an inscription above the upper spout.[8]