Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys) is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. A 19th century Office. 4 related planning applications.
Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
- WRENN ID
- burning-porch-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Office
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys), Liverpool Road, L23 0QP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 320 990
- Coordinates
- 53.48335, -3.02531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Headmaster's House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys) is a building likely constructed in 1878 by Lockwood and Mawson. Originally serving as the headmaster's residence, it is now used as offices. The structure is made of red brick in English bond, featuring sandstone and terracotta dressings, and has a graduated green slate roof with blue slate fishscale bands. The design is eclectic, incorporating both Gothic and Tudor elements, and has a modified square plan with projecting gabled bays.
The exterior consists of two storeys with a two-to-one window arrangement and a short gabled wing to the right. It has a chamfered plinth and a first-floor string course that wraps around the building. A gabled porch is located at the angle, featuring a two-centred arched doorway with set-in colonnettes topped with foliated caps, divided doors, and oversailing verges supported by wooden brackets. The porch also has panelled bargeboards and a cut-down finial. To the left, there is a tall cross-window, with one and two-light windows above, while a large six-light transomed window is present at the ground floor of the gabled wing to the right, with a stepped three-light window above. The building has short ridge chimneys with swept stone caps, likely the bases of former tall shafts that are now missing. The left return features a similar two-to-one window arrangement, with two gables; the right gable projects and includes a storeyed canted bay window adorned with crocketed cornices on both levels, with other windows matching the front.
The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with the main school building.
Local climate
Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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