Lodge at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery Adjacent to the Western, Secondary Cemetery Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Lodge.

Lodge at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery Adjacent to the Western, Secondary Cemetery Gates

WRENN ID
fallen-niche-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
SJ 291 895
Coordinates
53.39813, -3.06699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lodge at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, built in 1864 by Lucy and Littler, is located adjacent to the western secondary cemetery gates. This building features coursed and squared stonework, although the roof covering is now missing. It is designed in an L-shape and has one-and-a-half storeys. The entrance porch is situated in the angle under a catslide extension of the roof from a projecting gable. There is a moulded arched doorway that leads up steps, and a stone oriel window supported by brackets is present in the gable alongside. Additionally, there are small paired foiled windows at the apex and paired foiled windows in the end wall of the other gable, along with a quatrefoil at the apex. An axial stack is also part of the structure. For information on the other principal cemetery buildings, refer to those listed under Tollemache Road.

Local climate

Lodge at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery Adjacent to the Western, Secondary Cemetery Gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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