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. Gate piers.

Gate Piers to Birkenhead Park

WRENN ID
blind-oriel-cedar
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 West
OS grid reference
SJ 300 892
Coordinates
53.39516, -3.05339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers at the entrance to Birkenhead Park were built between 1843 and 1847. There are paired stone gate piers on either side of the main and foot gates. These piers feature moulded panels and have shallow pyramidal caps above a modillion cornice.

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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