Gate House At Railway Level Crossing

The gate house at the railway level crossing in Lathom 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 of snecked sandstone rubble with a slate roof and features stone and brick chimneys. The building has an L-plan layout, consisting of a two-unit main range that runs parallel to the road, with a service wing set back at the right-hand end.

Designed in the Elizabethan style, it has a steeply-pitched roof and mullioned windows. The structure is two storeys high with two symmetrical windows, and it includes rusticated rock-faced quoins. A gabled single-storey porch is located in the center, featuring 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 has mullioned two-light windows topped with gablets. A chimney is positioned at the right-hand gable.

On the left gable wall facing the track, there is a mullion-and-transom canted bay window at ground floor level and a cross-window above it. At the right-hand end, the set-back single-storey wing has a Tudor-arched doorway, which is now protected by a 20th-century glazed porch. This gate house is part of a group of similar buildings along this section of the railway line.