Gateway to Former Liscard Battery is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Gateway.

Gateway to Former Liscard Battery

WRENN ID
mired-basalt-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1988
Type
Gateway
Address
Gateway to Former Liscard Battery, Magazine Brow
OS grid reference
SJ 313 933
Coordinates
53.43237, -3.03431
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway to the former Liscard Battery, dated 1858, is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. It features an entrance archway with a four-centred head and continuous double-chamfered mouldings, topped with a datestone. Above the archway is a corbelled embattled parapet. The gateway is flanked by octagonal towers that include slots and cornices, also adorned with embattled parapets. This structure served as the entrance to the Liscard Battery, which was built to defend the approaches to Liverpool on the site of powder magazines.

Local climate

Gateway to Former Liscard Battery 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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