Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Lych gate.
Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- seventh-banister-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate, Church Lane, Doddington
- OS grid reference
- TL 400 905
- Coordinates
- 52.4953, 0.06098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate, dated 1907 on the lintel, is an oak-framed structure featuring a hipped roof covered with red plain tiles, topped with a wooden cross. It stands on a plinth made of limestone and rubble. The design includes pilastered posts with curved brackets supporting the roof timbers and wooden cill beams. The gate has a pair of oak gates that feature pierced panels. This lych gate is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lych Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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