Wall, Railings and Piers to West 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. Wall, railings, piers.
Wall, Railings and Piers to West of the Sands Sports Centre
- WRENN ID
- burning-basalt-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1994
- Type
- Wall, railings, piers
- Address
- Wall, Railings and Piers to West of the Sands Sports Centre, Bridge Water Road
- OS grid reference
- NY 401 565
- Coordinates
- 54.89971, -2.93538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall, railings, and piers located to the west of the Sands Sports Centre in Carlisle were originally built for the Cattle Market, likely around 1895. The structure features a low, chamfered wall made of red sandstone, topped with heavy cast-iron railings. These railings have a speared design, with every alternate rail ending in a speared ball finial and supported by interval columns. The end piers are made of red sandstone, with squared shafts and round chamfered angles, standing on moulded plinths and topped with modillioned segmental capitals. The railings are arranged in stepped sections to follow the slope of the ground. Following the widening of the Eden Bridge in 1932, the railings were moved back from their original position and now sit beside a ramp that runs parallel to the bridge, providing access to Swifts Bank. Another section of these railings can be found under Newmarket Road.
Local climate
Wall, Railings and Piers to West 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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