Piers, Railings and Gates at Entrance to Transporter Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Middlesbrough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1988. Entrance structure. 3 related planning applications.
Piers, Railings and Gates at Entrance to Transporter Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dim-moulding-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Middlesbrough
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East MP: Andy McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1988
- Type
- Entrance structure
- Address
- Piers, Railings and Gates at Entrance to Transporter Bridge, Ferry Road, TS2 1PL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 499 212
- Coordinates
- 54.58373, -1.22878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers, railings, and gates at the entrance to the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough were built in 1910 by G.C. Imbault from Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co., Ltd., with construction by Hill and Smith of Brierley Hill, Staffordshire. The entrance features rockfaced granite piers, iron railings, gatepiers, and lamp brackets. There are two granite piers flanking the entrance, each adorned with a large polished granite tablet that has an inscribed recessed panel commemorating the foundation of the bridge in 1910. Each pier has a short colonnette with a moulded and chamfered base, supporting a fluted stem and two scrolled lamp brackets, although the lamps are now missing. The Middlesbrough Corporation arms are affixed to the colonette. The piers are flanked by spike-topped railings and gates, along with slender square gatepiers and intermediate piers that feature crown and ball-on-stem finials. The gates have scrolled side bars. Additionally, similar railings and piers extend at right angles from the entrance along the west side of the road for approximately 35 meters, ending in another similar gate. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Piers, Railings and Gates at Entrance to Transporter Bridge receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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