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
vast-ledge-marsh
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 Wolverton Avenue, FY2 9NT
OS grid reference
SD 306 388
Coordinates
53.84131, -3.05482
Source
Historic England listing

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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 created by the Lion Foundry Company of Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.

The shelter has a rectangular plan and features slim cast-iron columns at the corners and centers of the long sides, most of which bear the foundry's marks. These columns are connected by wooden screens at each end and cruciform central screens. The round columns are topped with scroll capitals and each supports the roof beams with three sweeping foliate brackets. The roof is double-swept and emphatically ribbed, featuring a prominent ridge crest. Ogee gutters above the eaves cornice direct water discharge through the bases of the corner columns. The screens consist of tongue-and-groove lower panels and upper glazing panels, which 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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