Entrance Gateway 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. Gateway.

Entrance Gateway to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)

WRENN ID
quartered-flint-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1996
Type
Gateway
Address
Entrance Gateway to Merchant Taylors School (Boys), Liverpool Road
OS grid reference
SJ 321 989
Coordinates
53.48329, -3.02336
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gateway to Merchant Taylors School (Boys) is located on Liverpool Road and dates from around 1878. It features a set of four stone gate piers with gates. The piers are made of sandstone and are large and square with chamfered bases, stop-chamfered corners, and cavetto friezes that include Tudor rose decorations. Each pier has a weathered pyramidal top with small trefoil lucarnes on each side. The gateway includes double carriage gates and single pedestrian gates that have dog-bars, circular tracery top panels, and scrolled cresting. This gateway is part of a group that includes the associated entrance lodge and the main school building.

Local climate

Entrance Gateway 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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