Gateway to Former Blind Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Gateway.
Gateway to Former Blind Workshops
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tower-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway to Former Blind Workshops, Frederick Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 915 041
- Coordinates
- 53.5338, -2.12947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to the former Blind Workshops, likely originally serving as the entrance to the coach-house yard of Werneth Park, was built around 1870. It is constructed from brick with stone dressings. The design features a wide central gateway flanked by concave walls. The terminal piers of these walls are made of brick with stone bands and have stepped pyramidal caps. The main gate piers are also brick, adorned with stone bands and scroll mouldings, supporting a stilted arch made of stone voussoirs and a heavy key. Above the arch is a pediment that includes a crest in a roundel and a spiked ball finial.
Local climate
Gateway to Former Blind Workshops 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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