Chadwick Lychgate at entrance to Sunnyhurst Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 2016. Lychgate.
Chadwick Lychgate at entrance to Sunnyhurst Wood
- WRENN ID
- dusk-plaster-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 2016
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SD 679 224
- Coordinates
- 53.69747, -2.48704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chadwick Lychgate, built in 1903, serves as one of the original entrances to Sunnyhurst Wood. It features a dressed sandstone base with moulded coping that supports a timber superstructure. Each side of the lychgate has four open bays, with carved arched braces that hold up the pitched tile roof and overhanging bracketed eaves. Both gables showcase mock timbered panels, carved arched braces, and decorative barge boards, each topped with a carved ogee-arch at the apex. The east gable is inscribed with the words 'Sunnyhurst Wood' in a gothic script, accompanied by carved floral motifs. The lychgate is equipped with double five-bar timber gates.
Local climate
Chadwick Lychgate at entrance to Sunnyhurst Wood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
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