Gateway to Victoria Park is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Gate.
Gateway to Victoria Park
- WRENN ID
- worn-soffit-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gateway to Victoria Park, Helmshore Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 785 224
- Coordinates
- 53.69838, -2.32593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to Victoria Park, dating from the late 19th century, features stone gate piers and wrought iron gates. There are four square gate piers, with the inner pair standing approximately 3 metres high and the outer pair slightly lower. Each pier has fielded panel sides and prominent pyramidal caps. The elaborate iron gates are adorned with flowing foliated scrolls along the top rail. The left main gate includes a spear finial with a moulded coat of arms at its locking end, while the right gate has a moulded cartouche in the centre that displays raised lettering indicating that the park was presented by the families of the Stotts and the Smiths, who were woollen manufacturers at Syke Side Mill on Manchester Road.
Local climate
Gateway to Victoria Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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