No 4 Gasholder, Carlisle Gas Works is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Gasholder.
No 4 Gasholder, Carlisle Gas Works
- WRENN ID
- waiting-pillar-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Gasholder
- Address
- No 4 Gasholder, Carlisle Gas Works, Rome Street
- OS grid reference
- NY 401 551
- Coordinates
- 54.88708, -2.93489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 gasholder at Carlisle Gas Works is a gasholder built between 1878 and 1879 by engineer J Hepworth. It is constructed from cast and wrought iron, as well as concrete. The structure features a cylindrical rising vertical tank set in a concrete pit, which has had its iron-plate cladding removed, exposing the iron ribs. The guiding frame consists of three tiers of twelve plain round cast-iron columns topped with ball and spear finials, all held together by lattice girders and bracing. This gasholder was previously noted as the first use of concrete in the north of England.
Local climate
No 4 Gasholder, Carlisle Gas Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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