Terrace Retaining Wall with Balustrade and Steps South of Abbeystead is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Retaining wall.
Terrace Retaining Wall with Balustrade and Steps South of Abbeystead
- WRENN ID
- slow-bailey-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Terrace Retaining Wall with Balustrade and Steps South of Abbeystead, Over Wyresdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 567 544
- Coordinates
- 53.98461, -2.66155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace retaining wall with balustrade and steps located south of Abbeystead was likely built in 1887 by Douglas. It features a buttressed wall made of sandstone rubble, topped with chamfered balusters that have a rectangular shape, creating round-arched openings beneath a coping. The end piers are square and mostly topped with ball finials. There are flights of stone steps at each end and in the middle of the wall.
Local climate
Terrace Retaining Wall with Balustrade and Steps South of Abbeystead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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