Walls at Heysham Head to South of House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1979. Garden wall.
Walls at Heysham Head to South of House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-spire-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1979
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Walls at Heysham Head to South of House, Barrows Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 409 611
- Coordinates
- 54.04335, -2.903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls at Heysham Head, located to the south of the house, are likely from the early to mid-19th century and early to mid-20th century, incorporating some 18th-century stonework. They are constructed of sandstone rubble. The southern wall features a Tudor-arched gateway with a three-light mullioned window to its right. Adjacent to this is a flight of stone steps that leads to an upper level beyond the western wall. The western wall extends northward and includes three niches that hold statues. On the north side, the garden is enclosed by a wall that has three moulded sandstone arches with keystones, supported by four columns with Doric capitals. The western column of the middle arch is buttressed. This western garden wall continues north beyond the northern wall, where it turns west parallel to Heysham Head House and features a blocked doorway with a moulded arched head, above which is a niche. From the western end of this wall, another wall containing two blocked stop-chamfered doorways extends north to meet the southwest corner of the house. The demolition of 20th-century additions to the house has led to some late 20th-century rebuilding of the wall. Heysham Head House was originally called Heysham Lodge and was purchased in 1923 by Septimus Wray, who opened the grounds to the public as Heysham Head Old English Gardens.
Local climate
Walls at Heysham Head to South of House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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