Vigo House, Including Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Vigo House, Including Gateway
- WRENN ID
- dim-trefoil-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Vigo House, Including Gateway, 6, Dial Street, WA1 2NX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 609 883
- Coordinates
- 53.39027, -2.58835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vigo House, located at Dial Street, is an early 19th-century building that stands on the site where Anna Laetitia Aikin, later known as Mrs. Barbauld, the poetess, lived from 1758 to 1774. A tablet on the cast iron gateway commemorates this history and was erected in 1911. The house is two storeys tall, constructed of brick with a slate roof, and features a stone parapet and cornice.
The central entrance is highlighted by a porch supported by detached Roman Doric columns and a cornice, leading to a six-panel door topped by a round-arched fanlight with glazing bars. The windows are 12 and 9-paned, with restored casements that resemble sash windows, flat brick heads, and stone sills. The building is dated 1817 and is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 6 (even), the Cross Keys Public House at Nos 80 to 84 (even), the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary, the Trustee Savings Bank, and No 95 on Buttermarket Street.
Local climate
Vigo House, Including Gateway 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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