Barn at Snape Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. Barn.
Barn at Snape Gate
- WRENN ID
- haunted-shingle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Snape Gate, Foxes Bank Lane, Whiston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 477 898
- Coordinates
- 53.40263, -2.7867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Snape Gate is probably from the 18th century and is located on the roadside. It is a tall structure built of coursed stone rubble with irregular quoins and a stone roof. The side facing the road features a central cart entrance topped with a catslide roof on the canted side walls, along with a segmental headed entrance that includes a keystone. The south gable end has two rows of loop lights.
Local climate
Barn at Snape Gate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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