Lych Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. A Medieval Gate-house. 1 related planning application.
Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- cold-hinge-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Gate-house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Lych Gate, Church Lane, Bray, SL6 2AF
- OS grid reference
- SU 901 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50855, -0.70208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate, likely a chantry-house with a lych gate underneath, dates from the early 15th century and was altered in the early 20th century. It features a timber frame with parts rendered and brick infill, topped by an old tile gabled roof. The building has a rectangular plan consisting of four framed bays, with an east wing that forms an L-shape and is listed separately. The front and back are jettied, and there is a passage through the structure with the lych gate located on the north side.
The lych gate is two storeys high and has a tall early 20th-century chimney on the west wall with a clay pot. The windows are diamond-leaded casements. On the south front, there is a gabled four-light oriel window on the first floor, featuring a small tiled pent roof and a coved apron, along with a moulded wooden cill and four carved brackets. To the right, there is a two-light side-sliding casement with folding panelled shutters. An archway with a four-centred head and arched spandrels is present, with old brickwork below.
The north front has a gable with a 19th-century carved bargeboard and a three-light sliding casement oriel window on the first floor, also with a small tiled pent roof. The ground floor features a long fixed window with nine turned wooden balusters in front on the cill, set within the depth of the reveal. To the right, there is a four-centred, hollow chamfered wooden arch with moulded spandrels over the lych gate. The passage through has 17th-century brickwork on each side, long tension braces, and an entrance door on the east wall, with stone setts on the floor. The wooden lych gate and fence include a middle rail and flat plain balusters.
Inside, the building displays good quality exposed timber framing, with redundant crown post roof trusses and chamfered arched windbraces.
Local climate
Lych Gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 53% 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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- No sale records on file
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