Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1994. Boundary wall, railings. 5 related planning applications.
Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1994
- Type
- Boundary wall, railings
- Address
- Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre, Newmarket Road, CA1 1JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 402 564
- Coordinates
- 54.89894, -2.93334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers, wall, and railings to the south of the Sands Sports Centre were likely constructed around 1895 and originally served the Cattle Market. The low sandstone wall features a chamfered design with a coping, topped by heavy cast-iron railings. Each alternate rail has a speared ball finial, supported by interval columns. The red sandstone piers have squared shafts with rounded moulded angles, resting on moulded bases and topped with modillioned segmental capitals.
Historically, the Sands were a series of islands between the two channels of the River Eden, used for a cattle market since medieval times. A new market was established in 1816, and by 1895, it was enclosed with railings. The market continued operating until the 1950s, after which the area became a car park, and in the 1980s, the Sports Centre was built on the site. The Carlisle Journal from April 1894 notes that the contract for the railings was awarded to Messrs Raybold & Co of Workington for £1,112.4s, while The Lion Foundry Co Ltd supplied the railings for the Cattle Market in 1895. A photograph from 1898 shows these railings in place.
Local climate
Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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