Gate Lodge, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 153 Bangor Road, Holywood, BT18 0EU is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Gate Lodge, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 153 Bangor Road, Holywood, BT18 0EU

WRENN ID
scarred-banister-lichen
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 422 804
Coordinates
54.65229, -5.7968
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a single-storey, two-bay lodge dating to the nineteenth century, situated on Bangor Road near the entrance to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and Cultra House (HB23/18/002A). The lodge has undergone alterations, including enlarged openings, an extension, and replacement fabric. It is not considered to be a building of special interest. This is a partial survey.

Local climate

Gate Lodge, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 153 Bangor Road, Holywood, BT18 0EU sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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