Pair of Stone Piers to Forecourt of Number 494 Cine City is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1998. Pair of piers.
Pair of Stone Piers to Forecourt of Number 494 Cine City
- WRENN ID
- swift-gargoyle-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1998
- Type
- Pair of piers
- Address
- Pair of Stone Piers to Forecourt of Number 494 Cine City, Wilmslow Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 848 929
- Coordinates
- 53.43353, -2.22897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of stone piers is located at the forecourt of number 494, known as Cine City, on Wilmslow Road in Withington. Likely built in 1881, the piers are made of dressed stone and have been colourwashed. They feature broad cylindrical shapes with a base, an upper band, chamfered tops, and ball finials. The piers are set on a continuous dwarf wall that has chamfered angles and was originally intended for railings. This structure forms a group with number 496, the Withington Ale House, and two additional pairs of piers at its forecourt.
Local climate
Pair of Stone Piers to Forecourt of Number 494 Cine City sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Sale history — 31 transactions since 2018
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