Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1990. Booth.
Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks
- WRENN ID
- stranded-glass-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1990
- Type
- Booth
- Address
- Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks, Hamilton Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 328 892
- Coordinates
- 53.39548, -3.01192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former police booth and gate piers at the entrance to Woodside lairage, Birkenhead Docks, date back to 1868. The police booth is constructed from rusticated sandstone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey, single-cell structure with polygonal ends and a rear entrance. The outer elevation has single-light windows that are divided by attached shafts. The booth also includes a heavy plinth, cornice, and parapet, along with a side wall stack. The gate piers are similarly made of rusticated ashlar and have a heavy plinth and cornice. This booth was built to manage the main road and pedestrian access to the dock, as part of the work carried out by engineer G.F. Lyster.
Local climate
Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks 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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