Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool is a Grade II listed building in the Blackpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 2021. Promenade shelter.
Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool
- WRENN ID
- ancient-flue-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackpool
- Constituency
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood MP: Lorraine Beavers (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 2021
- Type
- Promenade shelter
- Address
- Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool, To the West of Queen's Promenade, Opposite Norfolk Avenue, FY2 9GN
- OS grid reference
- SD 307 392
- Coordinates
- 53.84457, -3.0542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The shelter on Queen's Promenade in Blackpool is a cast-iron structure built in 1904 and relocated between 1924 and 1930. It was made by the Lion Foundry Company of Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.
This rectangular shelter features slim cast-iron columns at the corners and centers of the long sides, many of which bear marks from the foundry. The columns are connected by screens at each end and have cruciform central screens. Each round column is topped with scroll capitals and supports the roof beams with three sweeping foliate brackets. The roof is double-swept and ribbed, with a prominent ridge crest. Ogee gutters are positioned above the eaves cornice and discharge water through the bases of the corner columns. The screens include tongue-and-groove lower panels and upper panels that were originally glazed but are now unglazed and partially boarded with plywood.
Local climate
Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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