Gates, Piers and Railings at Principal Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Dudley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1989. Gates, railings.
Gates, Piers and Railings at Principal Entrance
- WRENN ID
- pitched-mantel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Stourbridge MP: Cat Eccles (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1989
- Type
- Gates, railings
- OS grid reference
- SO 898 836
- Coordinates
- 52.45028, -2.15078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, piers, and railings at the principal entrance of Mary Stevens Park in Stourbridge were built around 1930. They feature fine ashlar piers with wrought-iron gates and railings designed in the Neo-Georgian style. The structure includes four large piers with intricately moulded plinths, panels, and cornices, each topped with elaborate metal lantern finials. Between the piers are wrought-iron double and single gates adorned with very detailed standards and overthrows. Flanking the entrance are two curved quadrant walls with tall spear-head railings that conclude with smaller piers that reflect the design of the main ones. The park and these gates were gifted to the town by Ernest Stevens, an industrialist and significant benefactor of Stourbridge, in memory of his wife in 1929. There are inscription plaques on both sides of the central piers.
Local climate
Gates, Piers and Railings at Principal Entrance receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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