Potter Gateway to Sunnyhurst Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 2016. Lychgate.
Potter Gateway to Sunnyhurst Wood
- WRENN ID
- worn-foundation-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 2016
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SD 679 229
- Coordinates
- 53.70213, -2.48648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Potter Gateway to Sunnyhurst Wood is a lychgate built in 1904, made of dressed sandstone, timber, and tile. This octagonal structure serves as the main entrance to Sunnyhurst Wood. It features a tooled stone base with moulded ashlar coping, set with eight stone bases and opposing out-turned entrances, although the gates have been removed. The timber superstructure consists of eight stout Tuscan columns that rise from the stone bases, supporting bracketed eaves that hold up a pyramidal roof. This roof is covered with tiles and topped with a carved stone finial. Inside, the structure is paved, and a stone inscribed in contemporary script commemorates the gifting of the gate and lists the names of its benefactors. Additionally, there is a metal fixing for a lantern attached to the underside of the dome.
Local climate
Potter Gateway to Sunnyhurst Wood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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