Wall and Railings Around Central Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. Wall and railings. 10 related planning applications.
Wall and Railings Around Central Gardens
- WRENN ID
- grey-merlon-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- Wall and railings
- Address
- Wall and Railings Around Central Gardens, Portland Square
- OS grid reference
- NY 405 556
- Coordinates
- 54.89234, -2.92818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A red sandstone wall with cast-iron railings, dating to 1870, surrounds a garden square in Carlisle. The wall is low and has a chamfered top edge, above which are patterned cast-iron railings with spearheads. Gate openings are present in the centre of each side of the wall, although the gates are missing. The wall is punctuated by octagonal gate piers, finished with ball-and-spear finials. The gate opening on the west side has been enlarged. The garden square originally existed as an open space, later made into a private residents garden following the addition of buildings in 1853. Records from the Carlisle Journal (1870) document the landscaping, planting, and inauguration of the garden by the Mayor, who planted a tree in each corner. The railings were cast by Lees & Graham of Carlisle, as indicated by an impressed founder’s name.
Local climate
Wall and Railings Around Central Gardens 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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- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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