Main Gateway, to Grosvenor Park Road, and Yard Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Gateway.
Main Gateway, to Grosvenor Park Road, and Yard Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cornice-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Gateway
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19102, -2.88173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main gateway to Grosvenor Park Road and the yard gate piers were built between 1865 and 1867 by architect John Douglas, funded by the second Marquis of Westminster for Chester City Council. Constructed from granite, the gateway features quadrant plinths with "crazy paving" rubble on the side screens, square end-piers, and side-piers for pedestrian gates that flank the carriage-entrance gate piers. The main piers are adorned with ornate moulded octagonal finials, while the smaller piers are square, tapering to an octagonal shape beneath bluntly-pointed caps. There are likely original cast-iron piers and a gate for the maintenance yard located immediately to the left of the main gateway.
Local climate
Main Gateway, to Grosvenor Park Road, and Yard Gate Piers receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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