Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. A 20th century Walls and gateways.
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens
- WRENN ID
- worn-pewter-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Walls and gateways
- Address
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens, Robert Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 479 615
- Coordinates
- 54.04724, -2.79696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, gate piers, and gates to the Town Hall Gardens were built in 1908 by Edward Mountford for Lord Ashton as part of the Town Hall scheme on Dalton Square. Constructed from sandstone ashlar and ironwork, the walls run along Nelson Street from the south-east corner of Dalton Square and down Robert Street to the corner of the Computer Block on George Street. They feature a deep plinth that supports a balustrade made of heavy vase balusters between panelled dies.
The gateways, located on Dalton Square and George Street just east of the Town Hall, are similar in design. Each gateway has three square piers that separate the footway from the carriageway, which follows the original alignment of Robert Street. Above a chamfered plinth, each pier has two plain bands that interrupt moulded vertical panels, topped with a cornice and blocking course. Between the piers hang pairs of heavy ornamental gates made of cast and wrought iron. The central panels of the gates are decorated with turned balusters and feature a panel at the top that contains a wreathed shield with the arms of both the Borough of Lancaster and Lord Ashton, flanked by red roses. Similar gates also secure the entrances to the footway and the Town Hall basement.
Local climate
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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