Entrance Portal and Lodges to Former White City Greyhound Track is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1987. Entrance portal. 1 related planning application.
Entrance Portal and Lodges to Former White City Greyhound Track
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gravel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Stretford and Urmston MP: Andrew Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1987
- Type
- Entrance portal
- Address
- Entrance Portal and Lodges to Former White City Greyhound Track, Chester Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 812 962
- Coordinates
- 53.46246, -2.28382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance portal and lodges to the former White City greyhound track, built in 1828, are constructed from ashlar, which is now painted, and feature cast-iron gates. The design is grand and classical, with double vehicular gates flanked by pedestrian doorways and two-storey lodges. The elaborate double cast-iron gates sit beneath a semi-circular keystone arch, which is flanked by freestanding paired unfluted Ionic columns. The doorways also include cast-iron gates and blind recesses above. Each lodge on either side has attached giant columns in antis and 12-pane sash windows on both floors. A bold entablature and blocking course run across the entire structure, projecting forward above the freestanding columns. This portal originally served as the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.
Local climate
Entrance Portal and Lodges to Former White City Greyhound Track sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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