Quay Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1997. Quay wall.
Quay Wall
- WRENN ID
- winter-portal-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1997
- Type
- Quay wall
- Address
- Quay Wall, St Georges Quay
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 622
- Coordinates
- 54.05315, -2.80421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quay Wall, built between 1750 and 1755 and partially rebuilt in 1806, was constructed for The Lancaster Port Commission. It is made of massive coursed squared Lancaster sandstone and features a deep bull-nosed coping course at footway level. This battered wall runs approximately 400 metres along the south-west bank of the River Lune, starting from an inset 40 metres east of Carlisle (railway) Bridge and extending to a raised abutment near the railway viaduct at the junction of St George's Quay and Lune Square. At the south-east end, the quay wall includes two steeply ramped slipways with setted surfaces and has raised parapet walls with rounded copings. The Lancaster Port Commission was established in 1750 to capitalize on favorable trading conditions in the Baltic and the West Indies, and the construction of the Quay Wall was a crucial initial step in developing port facilities in Lancaster. It is located near a range of 18th and 19th-century warehouses and the Customs House, which were built after the quay and share a strong group value with it.
Local climate
Quay Wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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