Latitude: 53.3915 / 53°23'29"N
Longitude: -3.0212 / 3°1'16"W
OS Eastings: 332186
OS Northings: 388784
OS Grid: SJ321887
Mapcode National: GBR 7YB6.QY
Mapcode Global: WH87D.K0KT
Plus Code: 9C5R9XRH+JG
Entry Name: Wirral Education Centre
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Last Amended: 10 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201607
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389172
ID on this website: 101201607
Location: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ the King
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3288NW CONWAY STREET 789-1/13/60 (North East side) 28/03/74 Wirral Education Centre (Formerly Listed as: CONWAY STREET (North side) Conway Secondary School)
II
School. Dated 1903. By T. W. Cubbon. Brick with gold terracotta dressings and Westmorland slate roof. Free classical style. Long 3-storeyed 18-bay building composed of a series of 7 blocks, loosely symmetrical about a central projecting entrance block. This central block has doorway with banded pilasters and balcony over carried by Caryatids. Giant segmental pediment above, over Venetian window. Mansard roof and wood turret with lead octagonal cap. Paired windows on each floor flanking this entrance, and terracotta panels with raised lettering reading "Birkenhead School Board Higher Elementary School". Symmetrical flanking blocks each of 3 bays with segmentally arched windows and banded brick and terracotta detailing to first storey. Second storey articulated by pilasters dividing the windows. Each block terminated by wide angle pilasters with terracotta panels incorporating monograms and terminating in turrets with statues in niches. The rest of the building is articulated as a series of elements, the varied fenestration expressing internal plan, all enriched with a similar range of decorative detail (eg the large 1st-floor round-headed window under segmental pediment breaking the cornice, to left). Return elevation to Burlington Street is similarly detailed, and incorporates the original Girls Entrance. Boys entrance towards the left of the main front.
Listing NGR: SJ3218688784
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