Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Post office, boxing club.
Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club
- WRENN ID
- stark-ledge-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Post office, boxing club
- Address
- Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club, Balliol Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 946
- Coordinates
- 53.44487, -2.9942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Post Office, now part of the Juvenile Court and housing the rear wing as a boxing club, was built in 1905. It is constructed of stone with a hipped slate roof and features two storeys with five bays, including a canted corner bay, and an additional fourteen bays facing Balliol Road. The end three bays project forward, with the central bay extending even further.
The ground floor has a sill course and cornice, with banded quoins on the projecting sections. The windows on the ground floor are segmental-headed and vary in width, featuring Gibbs surrounds and large triple keystones. The windows are fitted with sashes that have upper glazing bars, as well as similar casements. The first-floor windows are adorned with architraves, and the fourth bay includes a round-headed window with a Gibbs surround and an open pediment.
The entrance in the first bay has an architrave and a round window above, topped with a consoled segmental hood. The canted corner bay features a round-headed entrance supported by Ionic columns and a round hood. The first floor is bowed and contains three windows set between Tuscan colonnettes, topped with an entablature and a cupola featuring an obelisk finial.
The return side has three bays that are similar in style, along with an eleven-bay one-storey wing made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and bands. This wing has a flat sill course, pilasters, a cornice, and a blocking course. The penultimate bay includes a round-headed entrance with a gate leading to a courtyard, which is framed by a Gibbs surround and an open pediment, with flanking windows that have grilles.
Local climate
Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club 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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