Gate Piers and Cast Iron Gate to Former Midland Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1986. A Victorian Gate piers and gate.
Gate Piers and Cast Iron Gate to Former Midland Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- lone-corridor-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1986
- Type
- Gate piers and gate
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Gate Piers and Cast Iron Gate to Former Midland Railway Station, Station Street, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 593 041
- Coordinates
- 52.63201, -1.12455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and cast iron gate to the former Midland Railway Station are located on Station Street and date back to 1839. They are the only surviving features of the station designed by William Parsons in the Greek Revival style. The station was demolished in 1890 and rebuilt. The structure includes two stone piers made of five slightly tapering ashlar blocks on a projecting single block base course. Each pier features a frieze and a moulded classical cornice topped with a weathered capping block. The sides of the piers are adorned with a central vertical band that stops against a vertical console bracket beneath the frieze. A single leaf cast iron gate, which has fleur de lys finials on the vertical bars, is hinged to the west side of the west pier.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Cast Iron Gate to Former Midland Railway Station receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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