Lychgate, Hale Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Lychgate. 1 related planning application.
Lychgate, Hale Chapel
- WRENN ID
- little-marble-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate, Hale Chapel, Chapel Lane, WA15 0AQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 791 854
- Coordinates
- 53.36553, -2.31462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at Hale Chapel, built around 1880, features a sandstone base with a timber frame and a graduated stone slate roof. It has a transverse pitched roof over double gates, which are adorned with pierced quatrefoils and flanked by weathered dwarf walls. The structure includes posts and diagonal supports that rise to support king-post trusses with curved struts. All components are chamfered and pegged together. This lychgate is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lychgate, Hale Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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