The Lea is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Residential building.
The Lea
- WRENN ID
- gilded-spindle-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- The Lea, Walmersley Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 805 134
- Coordinates
- 53.61743, -2.29513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lea is a mid-19th century building constructed from coursed squared rubble. It is two storeys high and features three altered windows. The entrance has a six-panel door set within a stuccoed doorcase that includes a pilastered cornice hood. Above the door, there is a fanlight with 20th-century glazing bars. The building is not symmetrical in its design.
Local climate
The Lea sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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