Terrace Wall and Statues South of Museum and Library at North End of Park is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Terrace wall.

Terrace Wall and Statues South of Museum and Library at North End of Park

WRENN ID
low-hammer-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1978
Type
Terrace wall
Address
Terrace Wall and Statues South of Museum and Library at North End of Park, Mowbray Extension Park
OS grid reference
NZ 398 567
Coordinates
54.90392, -1.37999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace wall and statues located south of the Museum and Library at the north end of Mowbray Park were built around 1866. This structure features an ashlar wall with stone statues. The low coped wall includes a plinth and a pattern of pierced linked circles between rectangular piers. At each end of the wall, there are figures of recumbent lions on the piers, which flank a central pier.

Local climate

Terrace Wall and Statues South of Museum and Library at North End of Park 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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