Gate House

Gate House is a railway level-crossing keeper's cottage, now a private dwelling, built around 1860 for the Manchester and Southport Railway Company. It is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The building has a two-unit main range that runs parallel to the road and is designed in an Elizabethan style, characterized by a steeply-pitched roof and mullioned windows.

The cottage is two storeys high with two symmetrical windows, and it has rusticated rock-faced quoins. In the center, there is a gabled single-storey porch that includes a Tudor-arched doorway with hollow spandrels, a coped gable, and a double-chamfered single-light window on each side. The ground floor has tall cross-windows with hoodmoulds, while the first floor features mullioned 2-light windows with gablets above them. A chimney is located at the left gable. On the right-hand gable wall facing the track, there is a canted bay window with a mullion-and-transom design at ground floor and a cross-window above. This building is one of a set of four similar structures along this section of the railway line.