Gossages Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1983. Office, works. 9 related planning applications.
Gossages Tower
- WRENN ID
- patient-postern-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1983
- Type
- Office, works
- Address
- Gossages Tower, Mersey Road, WA8 0DF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 512 841
- Coordinates
- 53.3517, -2.73366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gossages Tower is a Grade II listed building located on Mersey Road in the former Borough of Widnes. Built around 1860 for the early chemical manufacturers Hutchinson & Co., it is rendered with a slate roof and primarily consists of four storeys with a two-storey wing. The building features classical elements such as a projecting plinth, rusticated quoins, and projecting bands at the sill level. The ground floor windows have curved heads with keystones and architraves, while flat moulded heads are present on the upper floors. A moulded string course runs midway up the ground floor windows, and there is a moulded eaves cornice. The main building has sash windows, with three on the ground floor. The entrance consists of a double two-panel bolection moulded door with a plain fanlight, flanked by flat pilasters. The two-storey section and the interiors are not of particular interest. Gossages Tower is a prominent feature in the landscape and was formerly known as the Tower Building.
Local climate
Gossages Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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