Entrance Gates, Piers and Walling at Swithland Reservoir Water Works is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. A C19 Entrance gates and walling.
Entrance Gates, Piers and Walling at Swithland Reservoir Water Works
- WRENN ID
- spare-gable-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Entrance gates and walling
- Address
- Entrance Gates, Piers and Walling at Swithland Reservoir Water Works, Kinchley Lane, Quorn
- OS grid reference
- SK 555 146
- Coordinates
- 52.72622, -1.17931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates, piers, and walling at Swithland Reservoir Water Works were built in 1896 by Hawkesley of London. They are constructed from red and blue brick, dressed stone, and wrought iron. The design features a pair of low walls that form a quarter circle with a convex curve, leading to a pair of piers with gates situated between them. The walls are made of red and blue brick, topped with stone coping, and have three panels of wrought iron work above, decorated with scrolls and ovals. The banded piers at the ends are also topped with dentilled stone coping and a stone urn. The gate piers are similar in style, featuring a stone obelisk on an urn base. The wrought iron gates are more elaborate than the wall panels. The entrance is positioned to the right of the lodge, and the entire complex is set in a park-like environment with a selection of trees and shrubs. This structure has group value with other features at Swithland Reservoir Water Works.
Local climate
Entrance Gates, Piers and Walling at Swithland Reservoir Water Works sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% 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 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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