North Lodge to Thornton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Lodge.
North Lodge to Thornton House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gutter-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- North Lodge to Thornton House, Thornton Common Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 810
- Coordinates
- 53.32224, -3.04299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Lodge to Thornton House is a lodge built in 1895 by Grayson and Ould. It features a timber-frame structure set on a stone base, topped with a stone slate roof. The building is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays, showcasing a jettied first floor. The windows are adorned with leaded glazing. On the ground floor, there are five-light canted oriel windows with transoms, while the first floor includes gabled dormers with projecting three-light windows and jettied gables. The entrance is marked by a gabled porch with a cambered opening and side panels that have splat balusters; the door is designed with vertical strips and leaded lights. The lodge has cross-axial and gable-end stacks. The right side facing the street features a jettied gable, and the rear includes a projecting gabled bay, a dormer, and a walled yard with a privy.
Local climate
North Lodge to Thornton House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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