Education Department and front wall is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Office, library, museum.
Education Department and front wall
- WRENN ID
- hushed-paling-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Office, library, museum
- Address
- Education Department and front wall, Oriel Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 947
- Coordinates
- 53.44536, -2.9942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Education Department building and its front wall, located on Oriel Road in Bootle, were constructed in 1886 by J. Johnson. Originally serving as a library and museum, the building is now used as offices. It is made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The structure is two storeys high and consists of five bays.
Notable architectural details include a faceted plinth, a top panelled frieze, a cornice, and a parapet adorned with finials. The ends of the building have flat pilasters, and the ground floor windows are paired, featuring round tympana with roundels and foliage, as well as archivolts and imposts. The entrance in the first bay is round-headed and includes a key, a consoled entablature, and a panel above inscribed "FREE LIBRARY/AND/MUSEUM" within a segmental pediment. The first floor's first bay has a round-headed window with an open pediment, while the other bays have rectangular panels. The parapet above the first bay displays a roundel with arms supporting two seated figures, topped by a pavilion roof.
The low front wall is complemented by granite bollards that support lamp standards with 20th-century lamps, along with cast iron bollards designed as lighthouses that hold chains.
Local climate
Education Department and front wall 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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