West Lodge to Ince Blundell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Gate house.
West Lodge to Ince Blundell Hall
- WRENN ID
- riven-newel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Gate house
- Address
- West Lodge to Ince Blundell Hall, Moor Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 325 026
- Coordinates
- 53.51643, -3.01916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge to Ince Blundell Hall is a gatehouse built in the mid-19th century, with 20th-century extensions on the sides. It is constructed of brick with stone decorations and features a slate roof adorned with fish scale bands. The building consists of three bays, with the central bay rising to two storeys while the flanking bays are one storey with an attic. The central bay projects forward and includes angle pilaster strips along with a bracketed frieze and cornice. The flanking bays have quoins and a cornice as well.
The windows are round-headed, featuring stone surrounds, keys, and sashes with margin lights. The central bay has paired windows on the first floor, while the flanking bays have round-headed dormers with stone surrounds and ball finials, equipped with casements that also have margin lights. The central entrance gateway is round-arched, complete with an archivolt and a jewelled keystone, and is flanked by cast iron gates. The spandrels are decorated with ribbands and shields, with the left spandrel displaying the Blundell arms, topped by a cornice.
The central bay is capped with a pyramidal roof that has a spike finial and four angle stacks, while the flanking bays feature hipped roofs with spike finials.
Local climate
West Lodge to Ince Blundell Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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