Monumental Masons Yard, gateway and boundary wall at Toxteth Park Cemetery

The Monumental Masons Yard, located at Toxteth Park Cemetery, comprises a complex of workshops, offices, and boundary structures dating primarily to the 19th century, with later 20th-century alterations. The yard occupies a polygonal site at the north-west corner of the cemetery, adjoining its boundary wall. The buildings are constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs.

The showroom and office is a single-storey polygonal building with a hipped roof, gabled ventilators, cast iron cresting, and finials. A massive external stack with shoulders and a coped octagonal flue is located to the left. The ashlar shopfront features a five-light cross-mullioned window, with the outer lights blocked, and forming a door on the right. A similar two-light window is on the left return, and a double door with ashlar surround on the rear facet. A single-storey range, rebuilt in the late 20th century with a lean-to concrete tile roof, adjoins the rear.

The two-storey workshop building has a hipped roof and external side wall stacks; the stack to the right is shouldered and lacks a flue, while the stack to the left is truncated. The central double doors are beneath a stone lintel, flanked by segment-headed windows now boarded. Two segment-headed louvre ventilators are above. A single-storey workshop range, of L-plan and dating to the 19th century, is situated to the left, with a brick front featuring various boarded openings and a tall stack. This range has five open bays supported by wooden posts.

A steel crane, dating to the early 20th century, stands in the centre of the yard, featuring a lattice jib. At the south end of the yard, a two-storey workshop has a hipped roof and remains of cresting and finials; a central ground-floor door is accompanied by a through-eaves dormer with a small round opening above. The rear elevation includes a door under a stone lintel, flanked to the left by a boarded window, a through-eaves dormer with a larger boarded round opening above, and single-storey lean-to workshops with blocked and boarded openings.

A single-storey workshop with canted ends, a plinth, and dentillated eaves is situated at the south-east corner of the site. It has a hipped roof with a central truncated ridge stack and boarded windows. A wrought iron double gate stands with buttressed brick piers, and a section of higher boundary wall with stepped ashlar coping to the north of the workshop. A lower section of wall continues north linking with the front boundary wall and railing.

Fronting Smithdown Road, a boundary wall approximately 40 metres long has ashlar coping to the wall and piers. Original cast-iron railing and 19th-century wrought iron gates with square brick piers and pyramidal caps are present. The wall links into the showroom enclosing the yard at the west end. The yard serves as an important architectural and functional element of the cemetery, offering a broader range of facilities than often found.