Accumulator Tower on South Side of River Entrance to Alfred Pier Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Accumulator tower.
Accumulator Tower on South Side of River Entrance to Alfred Pier Dock
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-rotunda-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Accumulator tower
- OS grid reference
- SJ 325 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40454, -3.01572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The accumulator tower, located on the south side of the river entrance to Alfred Pier Dock in Wallasey, dates from 1860 and is possibly designed by J.B. Hartley. It is constructed of brick with rock-faced stone dressings and features a square, two-stage design. The tower has a stone base string course, a corbelled cornice, and a coping at the parapet, along with quoins on the clasping buttresses.
The first stage includes windows with rock-faced jambs and ashlar pointed arches that have round soffits; there are paired lights on the west and east sides, and a single light on the north side. The south facade features an entrance with a similar arch and original timber doors. The top stage has round-headed lights with rock-faced jambs and keys to ashlar lintels, arranged in pairs on the north and south sides and in triples on the east and west sides. The tower is only two stages high because most of its shaft is situated below ground.
Local climate
Accumulator Tower on South Side of River Entrance to Alfred Pier Dock 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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