Entrance Gates at North West Entrance to Battersea Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1988. Entrance gate. 3 related planning applications.

Entrance Gates at North West Entrance to Battersea Park

WRENN ID
low-sandstone-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wandsworth
Constituency
Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1988
Type
Entrance gate
Address
Entrance Gates at North West Entrance to Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Road
OS grid reference
TQ 275 772
Coordinates
51.47962, -0.1653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gates at the north-west entrance to Battersea Park were built around 1891 for the London County Council. The outer pedestrian gateways are made of Portland stone and feature an Arts and Crafts style. They have a nowy-headed coping and a floating cornice above a tall keystone that includes a carved Art-Nouveau style female head. A moulded stone architrave frames the semi-circular arched doorway. The gates consist of wrought iron pedestrian gates and ramped carriage gates, adorned with scrolled ironwork on the upper panels and spear finials. Flanking wrought-iron screen walls ramp up to the pedestrian gates. These gates are one of four entrances to Battersea Park that were designed in the 1850s by James Pennethorne.

Local climate

Entrance Gates at North West Entrance to Battersea Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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