Entrance Gateway at Ripley St Thomas School is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. A Victorian Entrance gateway.

Entrance Gateway at Ripley St Thomas School

WRENN ID
dreaming-courtyard-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1970
Type
Entrance gateway
Period
Victorian
Address
Entrance Gateway at Ripley St Thomas School, Ashton Road
OS grid reference
SD 477 607
Coordinates
54.04019, -2.79974
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gateway at Ripley St Thomas School, built around 1860 and probably designed by J Cunningham, is made of sandstone ashlar with some polygonal masonry above the archways. It features four piers, with the inner piers flanking the driveway and connected to the outer piers by pointed archways that serve as pedestrian entrances. These archways are topped with steep coped gables adorned with fleur-de-lys finials, which rise from weathered set-backs in the main piers. The piers themselves have eight-sided stone caps with poppyhead finials. The wrought-iron gates, which appear to be original, include decorative scrolls and trefoiled arches.

Local climate

Entrance Gateway at Ripley St Thomas School 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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