Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1989. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-corner-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1989
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House, 139, Seymour Road, BL1 8PU
- OS grid reference
- SD 719 114
- Coordinates
- 53.59863, -2.42554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former lodge to Watermillock Gate House, located on Seymour Road, was built in 1880 and designed by architects JJ Bradshaw and John Gass. The building is constructed from coursed tooled rubble and features a graded green slate roof. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has a T-plan layout, with a 20th-century extension at the rear.
The entrance loggia consists of two bays and includes a segmentally arched arcade supported by low piers adorned with rich foliate capitals and spandrels. Above the loggia is a gabled dormer with overhanging eaves and a finial. To the right, there is a curved end bay of the wing, which features 5-light dressed stone mullioned windows with leaded panes on both floors, topped by a deeply overhanging conical roof with a finial.
The side elevation facing Crompton Way has deep eaves interrupted by a gabled dormer on the left and a large external stack with three shaped shafts. There are single-light windows on the ground floor on either side. The left end of the building has a gabled 2-light dormer with coved stone on the gable wall, along with 2 and 3-light windows below. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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