Pooley Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Gates and gateway.
Pooley Gates
- WRENN ID
- over-panel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Gates and gateway
- Address
- Pooley Gates, Paradise Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 345 899
- Coordinates
- 53.40269, -2.9861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pooley Gates are gates and a gateway, made of cast iron and dating from around the 1840s to 1850s. They were created in Liverpool by Henry Pooley and Son, designed by John Cunningham, and were installed at the Liverpool Sailors Home by 1852. After the Liverpool Blitz, the gates were removed during restoration works, and the Sailors Home was demolished in the 1970s. In 1948, the gates were offered for sale to W & T Avery, which had merged with Henry Pooley in 1931. By 1951, they were erected at Avery’s Soho Foundry in Smethwick, Sandwell. In 2011, permission was granted to relocate the gates back to Liverpool, and they were subsequently installed in Paradise Street near the former site of the Sailors Home.
The gates consist of a lower part divided into four sections, with the two central sections functioning as gates. Each gate features diagonal lattice infill that is cast to resemble rope, with a knot at each intersection. They also have a central lozenge containing a cast mermaid with two tails. Above the gates is an elaborate superstructure, which includes a Liver bird above ropework draped with cloth, flanked by nautical symbols such as oars, flags, bugles, ships' wheels, and intersecting dolphins.
Local climate
Pooley Gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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