Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1972. Gatekeeper's cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-merlon-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1972
- Type
- Gatekeeper's cottage
- Address
- Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage, 3, Whitebridge Lane, Stone, ST15 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 894 348
- Coordinates
- 52.91074, -2.1583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage is a gate-keeper's cottage built between 1848 and 1850 for the North Staffordshire Railway. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a tile roof adorned with fishscale bands. The cottage is designed in an L-plan and exhibits Tudor style elements. It is a single-storey building with a two-bay range and has coped gables. The windows are fitted with hollow-chamfered reveals and casements that include ogee-moulded mullions.
The entrance features a gabled porch with a Tudor-arched head and a 20th-century door. Inside, there is a Tudor-headed entrance with a moulded arch and a plank door. To the left of the entrance, there is a two-light window. The right side of the cottage, which faces the railway, has a canted bay window under a hipped roof, two three-light windows, and another two-light window. There are two cross-axial stacks with diagonal shafts, one on the left with a moulded cap, and a similar later stack to the right of the bay. The left side of the cottage has a later outshut under a catslide roof.
Local climate
Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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