Gorse Hill Park Entrance Portal and Lodges is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1963. Entrance portal and lodges. 1 related planning application.
Gorse Hill Park Entrance Portal and Lodges
- WRENN ID
- hidden-timber-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Stretford and Urmston MP: Andrew Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1963
- Type
- Entrance portal and lodges
- Address
- Gorse Hill Park Entrance Portal and Lodges, Chester Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 804 955
- Coordinates
- 53.45647, -2.29607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Hill Park entrance portal and lodges are a mid-19th century structure made of ashlar with cast-iron gates. The entrance features double gates flanked by smaller pedestrian gates and small single-storey lodges, all designed in a classical style. The central semi-circular archway has a scrolled keystone, a coffered soffit, and an archivolt, supported by Corinthian columns that hold up a dentilled and modillioned entablature. The pedestrian archways also include keystones. The lodges have canted sides and full-height flat pilasters, with sash windows that have cornice hoods on consoles. Panelled doorways at the rear are accompanied by elaborate cast-iron lamp standards, which are also present on the quadrant walls that extend outwards to create a forecourt. The cast-iron gates are richly decorated with vine and grape motifs. This structure was re-erected from the entrance to Trafford Hall.
Local climate
Gorse Hill Park Entrance Portal and Lodges 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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