Former Cabmen's Shelter West of Bolton Lane Entrance to Park is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Public shelter.
Former Cabmen's Shelter West of Bolton Lane Entrance to Park
- WRENN ID
- white-vestry-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- Public shelter
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 454
- Coordinates
- 52.06545, 1.1595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former cabmen's shelter, dated 1892, is located west of the Bolton Lane entrance to Christchurch Park. Originally situated in Cornhill, it now serves as a public shelter. This timber building features a boarded plinth and segmental arched openings, with four on the front and rear and three on the sides. The arches are adorned with carved ornamental spandrels. An entrance is located on the south-west side. The roof is gambrel-shaped, tiled, and includes a central louvred cupola topped with an ogee leaded roof and a finial. The eaves cornice is richly ornamented.
Local climate
Former Cabmen's Shelter West of Bolton Lane Entrance to Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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