Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Cottage.
Gate House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-tower-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gate House, Daisy Lane, Lathom
- OS grid reference
- SD 462 117
- Coordinates
- 53.59964, -2.81408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Gate House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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