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
- third-bastion-clover
- 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 South
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 886
- Coordinates
- 53.39052, -3.04404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers to Birkenhead Park were built around 1843-1847 and are classified as grade II. There are four gate piers that mark the main and foot gates at the entrance to the park. They are made of panelled ashlar and feature shallow pyramidal copings 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 1,080 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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