Church Drive Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. School. 7 related planning applications.

Church Drive Primary School

WRENN ID
frozen-niche-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
School
Address
Church Drive Primary School, CH62 5EF
OS grid reference
SJ 337 846
Coordinates
53.35475, -2.99631
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Church Drive Primary School is a school built between 1902 and 1903 by the architects Grayson and Ould. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressing, some roughcast, and features tile roofs. It has an irregular plan and is mostly one storey high.

The first bay has a low projecting storey with a ramped parapet. The windows feature gauged brick flat arches and casements, while the half-hipped gabled first floor includes a Venetian window with small-paned glazing. The entrance is adorned with a tented copper canopy and is located on the right return. The second bay contains a window with a small-paned casement and central round-headed glazing, topped by a shaped gable. The third bay is recessed and similar to the second bay, with a gable that abuts a low tower featuring round-headed openings, a stone parapet, and a recessed octagonal turret with a balustrade and ogival cupola topped with a weather vane.

The fourth bay projects and has a ground floor similar to the first bay, but with 20th-century metal casements. The end bay is recessed and gabled. The left return is similar, with a basement featuring an elliptical arcade and a balustrade above. There are also some roof dormers, and the first bay has a half-hipped gable. A projecting two-storey toilet block with an external stair is present. The rear of the building includes a basement arcade, with the first bay featuring a half-octagonal oriel on brackets and a central pediment. The projecting toilet block has an end bay with a gabled half-hipped gable, and some bays have shaped gables for the dormers. The right return has two gabled bays, and there are seven stacks with Lombard friezes at the caps.

Local climate

Church Drive Primary School 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. K6 Telephone Kiosk, Church Drive, Bebington Grade II 65 m
  2. 23 and 24, Windy Bank Grade II 73 m
  3. Residents Club and Numbers 21 and 22 Grade II 120 m
  4. Sunlight Lodge Grade II 121 m
  5. Lych Gate to Christ Church Grade II 136 m
  6. Christ Church Grade II* 155 m
  7. Pond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art Gallery Grade II 170 m
  8. Port Sunlight War Memorial Grade I 217 m
  9. 230 and 232, New Chester Road Grade II 218 m
  10. 240 and 242, New Chester Road Grade II 226 m