Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Gate and railings.
Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre
- WRENN ID
- upper-footing-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate and railings
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre, Bank Parade
- OS grid reference
- SD 842 330
- Coordinates
- 53.79332, -2.24108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings, gate piers, and gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre were likely built in 1873 by William Waddington. They are associated with the grounds of a former grammar school. The structure features a low sandstone rubble wall with chamfered coping, complemented by cast-iron railings and gates. These elements enclose the west, north, and parts of the east and south sides of a rounded-triangular plot.
In front of the school’s doorway, there is a pair of simple monolithic Gothic-style gate piers topped with pyramidal caps adorned with brattished ornament. The gates consist of simple cylindrical bars and dog-bars, both sets featuring circular medallion finials with Tudor-rose designs. The railings flanking the gateway match in style, while those surrounding the triangular garden to the north of the school have spike finials and spear-head standards. This structure is part of a group with the former grammar school, now known as Burnley College Adult Education Centre.
Local climate
Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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