The Enterprise Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Former school. 1 related planning application.

The Enterprise Centre

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Former school
Address
The Enterprise Centre, York Street, Bromborough Pool Village, CH62 4TZ
OS grid reference
SJ 349 841
Coordinates
53.35054, -2.97829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Enterprise Centre, formerly listed as a primary school, is a former school building constructed in 1898. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. The building is one storey high with an irregular plan and consists of five bays. The first, fourth, and fifth bays are recessed and lower, while the second and third bays are gabled, with the second bay projecting.

To the right of the first bay, there is a tower. Some windows are sashed with glazing bars, while others have small-paned casements. The first bay includes a hipped projection with three sashes. The second bay features paired two-light pointed recesses with segmental heads and transoms, with casements in between, and a roundel above. The third bay has a triple pointed window with two transoms and blind heads, flanked by lights with casements. The fourth bay contains a three-light single-chamfered-mullioned window, and the sixth bay has two sashes.

The tower has a pointed tympanum to its window, a blind slot with a label mould, a diapered frieze, projecting turrets, and a ramped parapet. There is a recessed timber turret with a pyramidal roof and a stack at the rear. The third bay has a lateral stack to the left. The left return is similar to the front. The projection has a ramped parapet with gabled roof dormers and flat-topped dormers.

There are two entrances with gablets, C20 doors, and weathered sills with two overlights. At the rear, there is a wall, two open-fronted sheds, and two outside toilets. The eastern shed has a ramped parapet over a segmental-pointed entrance and an inner gabled bay with lower bays at the rear. The rear shed is open-fronted with iron posts and a hipped roof. The western open-fronted shed is similar and has a toilet at the rear under a lean-to roof, along with an angle turret topped with a pyramidal roof.

This building is part of a planned village for Price's Patent Candle Company, which is one of the earliest examples of a model industrial village.

Local climate

The Enterprise Centre 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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