College of Further Education is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A Victorian Technical institute.
College of Further Education
- WRENN ID
- blind-pinnacle-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Technical institute
- Address
- College of Further Education, 260, Picton Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 387 895
- Coordinates
- 53.39907, -2.92315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The College of Further Education, originally a Technical Institute, was built between 1898 and 1899 by architect Thomas Shelmerdine. This two-storey building features red brick with dressed stone and a slate roof, and it has five bays. The first bay is canted with a gable, while the end three bays are recessed. The ground floor has a flush lintel band, and the first floor includes a sill course, top frieze, and cornice.
The first bay showcases high 3:4:3 light windows set within a stone band, while the last three bays contain 2-light windows with two transoms. The entrance in the second bay is framed by a granite Ionic aedicule with rusticated columns, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment that features a complete fanlight in the tympanum. The first floor has a parapet that is raised over the windows in the first and second bays, which include 3:4:3-light and 5-light windows with transoms. The end three bays have cross windows, and the first bay has a lunette with a triple key and stone banding. Above the entrance, the second bay displays the inscription "TECHNICAL INSTITUTE" adorned with foliage. There are iron railings to the right of the entrance, and the returns of the building are similar in design.
Local climate
College of Further Education sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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