Entrance to Griffin Park is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1974. Entrance gates.
Entrance to Griffin Park
- WRENN ID
- night-foundation-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1974
- Type
- Entrance gates
- Address
- Entrance to Griffin Park, Springfield Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 667 272
- Coordinates
- 53.74054, -2.50569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance to Griffin Park consists of two stone gates and flanking walls, which are of modern construction. These gates are located at the end of Springfield Street, connecting properties Nos 11 and 14, and they complete the group of buildings in this area. The surrounding properties, Nos 2 to 12 (even) and Nos 7 to 11 (odd), contribute to the overall character of the entrance to the park, which also features stone setts on the roadway.
Local climate
Entrance to Griffin Park 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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