Former School and Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. School, community centre. 3 related planning applications.

Former School and Masters House

WRENN ID
weathered-bracket-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
School, community centre
Address
Former School and Masters House, Church Road
OS grid reference
SJ 305 809
Coordinates
53.32077, -3.04422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former school and master’s house, now a community centre, was built around 1866-8 by Kirk and Sons. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with tile cresting. The building is one storey in height, with five bays; the first bay rises to two storeys and both the first and fifth bays are gabled, featuring coped gables with iron finials. The central bay has a window of three cusped lights, set under a relieving arch and beneath a gablet. The flanking bays each have a single cusped light. A projecting porch wing has return gables. The first bay’s ground floor features a window of two lights with shouldered lintels under a relieving arch, while the first floor has a window of two pointed lights with a colonette and an ashlar tympanum. The fifth bay has a window of three cusped lights under a relieving arch. The right return of the porch features an entrance door with strap hinges. The first bay has an entrance with a shouldered lintel, and the gable end to the fourth bay contains a bell cote. The left return has a lateral stack, and the right return comprises two bays with a gablet to the first bay.

Local climate

Former School and Masters House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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