Gate Piers to Birkenhead Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. A C19 Gate piers. 1 related planning application.
Gate Piers to Birkenhead Park
- WRENN ID
- peeling-brass-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers to Birkenhead Park, Park Road North, CH41 0EZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 302 894
- Coordinates
- 53.39729, -3.0505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers to Birkenhead Park, built around 1847, are made of ashlar and feature recessed panels with shallow pyramidal copings. These gate piers are part of the original design of the park, which was laid out by Joseph Paxton between 1843 and 1847.
Local climate
Gate Piers to Birkenhead Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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