Watling Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Watling Gate

WRENN ID
proud-hammer-woodpecker
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
House
Address
Watling Gate, Leys Road
OS grid reference
SJ 773 900
Coordinates
53.40703, -2.34229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Watling Gate is a house built around 1910 by the architects Newton and Bayley. It is constructed of brick and features a stone slate roof, designed in a 17th-century style. The layout follows a hall-house plan with a screens passage, and the central house part is open to the roof. There are two-storey cross-wings on either side, with the left wing projecting at both the front and rear, as well as a single-storey wing at the back. The front elevation has a single-storey lean-to canopy supported by timber posts.

The house includes four 2-light casement windows in the gabled crosswing, and two 5-light timber mullion and transom windows in the house part, one of which is a dormer window at the upper level. Additionally, there is a 3-light mullion and transom window in the right-hand bay, accompanied by a 5-light dormer window. The chimney stacks are stone capped, with the one at the crossing featuring four diagonally set shafts arranged in a cross formation.

Inside, the house has a panelled passage and house part, with a gallery on two sides of the house part accessible by a staircase with splat balusters. There is an inglenook fireplace with a gallery above it, along with three exposed queen-post trusses and exposed joists. Watling Gate is noted as an interesting and complete example of the local vernacular revival style.

Local climate

Watling Gate 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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