Gate House at Railway Level Crossing is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Keeper's cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gate House at Railway Level Crossing
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cornice-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Keeper's cottage
- Address
- Gate House at Railway Level Crossing, Culvert Lane, Lathom, WN8 7XF
- OS grid reference
- SD 482 110
- Coordinates
- 53.59341, -2.78282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate house at the railway level crossing in Newburgh is a 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 a stone and brick chimney. The building is designed in an L-plan, consisting of a two-unit main range that runs parallel to the road, with a service wing set back at the right-hand end.
Architecturally, it reflects the Elizabethan style, characterized by a steeply-pitched roof, apex finials, and mullioned windows. The structure is two storeys high and has two symmetrical windows, with rusticated rock-faced quoins. At 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 features tall cross-windows with hoodmoulds, while the first floor has mullioned two-light windows topped with gablets. A chimney is located at the right-hand gable.
The left gable wall, facing the track, has a canted bay window with a mullion and transom at ground level and a cross-window above it. The single-storey service wing at the right-hand end is set back. This gate house is part of a group of similar buildings along this section of the railway line.
Local climate
Gate House at Railway Level Crossing 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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