Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. Lych Gate.
Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- carved-cupola-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1988
- Type
- Lych Gate
- Address
- Lych Gate, the Street, Waltham St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- SU 829 769
- Coordinates
- 51.4853, -0.80683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St Lawrence was built in 1906. It features a timber frame that is partly supported by stone and flint walls, with tile slips on the wall plate. The roof is made of old tiles and has a half-hipped design. The structure has a rectangular plan and includes arch-braced and chamfered trusses at each end, along with large scantling rafters. The chamfered and cambered purlins bear an inscription that reads, "This gate was erected by the Friends and Relations of Rear Admiral Capel Woodhouse for 17 years Churchwarden of this Parish." There is a bench seat on each side, and the floor is patterned with tile slips and stone. Although the gates are missing, the pintles remain.
Local climate
Lych Gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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