Masonic Hall including former Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Church, masonic hall.
Masonic Hall including former Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- third-panel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Church, masonic hall
- Address
- Masonic Hall including former Sunday School, Duke Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 332 168
- Coordinates
- 53.64362, -3.0113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Masonic Hall, which includes a former Sunday School, was originally built as the United Methodist Free Church between 1878 and 1879 by architects Maxwell and Tuke. It was extended in 1900 by G Bolshaw and converted in 1953. The building features a sandstone ashlar entrance block, while the rest is constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble, topped with a slate roof. It is designed in the Italianate style and has a rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street.
The exterior consists of two storeys with three unequal bays, arranged symmetrically around a wide pedimented centre. The building has a plinth and pilasters on both floors; the ground floor pilasters are very broad and feature carved crocket capitals, while the first-floor pilasters have central slots and plain moulded caps. Both floors are adorned with entablatures that include dentilled cornices and pierced parapets flanking the pediment.
On the ground floor, there are three large doorways at the centre, protected by a three-bay porch with segmental arches supported by columns featuring stiff-leaf capitals. The outer bays contain stained glass windows, complete with imposts and keystones. The first floor features an arcaded five-light window in the centre, which has pilaster mullions and linked hoodmoulds, small-pane leaded glazing, and circular heads with stained glass. The outer bays have matching one-light windows. The building also has one-bay return walls that match the main style, and a three-bay rear range that is plainer, with pilasters and coupled round-headed windows on both floors. Attached at right angles to the rear is a single-storey former Sunday School, which has a steeply pitched gabled facade with tall round-headed windows.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Masonic Hall including former Sunday School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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