Entrance Gateway, Garden Wall and Corner Tower to Number 32 (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Gateway, garden wall, tower.

Entrance Gateway, Garden Wall and Corner Tower to Number 32 (Not Included)

WRENN ID
forgotten-iron-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Gateway, garden wall, tower
Address
Entrance Gateway, Garden Wall and Corner Tower to Number 32 (Not Included), Christchurch Road
OS grid reference
SJ 308 878
Coordinates
53.38314, -3.0409
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This entrance gateway, garden wall, and corner tower date from around 1870 and are constructed of rockfaced sandstone. The structure features a small turret at the upper angle with an entrance archway. A round tower is recessed in the lower angle, positioned behind the smaller turret, which has two lancet windows. The design includes an embattled parapet that overhangs a dog-tooth cornice.

Local climate

Entrance Gateway, Garden Wall and Corner Tower to Number 32 (Not Included) 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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