Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Birkenhead Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Gate, railings.
Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Birkenhead Park
- WRENN ID
- peeling-flue-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1992
- Type
- Gate, railings
- Address
- Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Birkenhead Park, Ashville Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 891
- Coordinates
- 53.39438, -3.04467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gates, and railings to Birkenhead Park were constructed around 1843 to 1847. They feature two ashlar gate piers that have incised panels and shallow pyramidal copings. The gates are made of plain cast iron, and the railings are also cast iron with spear-head designs, mounted on a low stone base wall, and include scrolled braces on the intermediate rails. These elements are part of the original development of the park, which was designed by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847. Notably, these gates are the only original ones that have survived and are embossed with the name of the founders, Coltam and Hallen from London.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Gates and Railings 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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