Wery Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Fragment of masonry.
Wery Wall
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gable-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Fragment of masonry
- Address
- Wery Wall, Vicarage Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 620
- Coordinates
- 54.05148, -2.80352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wery Wall is a fragment of masonry from a 4th-century fort located in Lancaster. It is made of sandstone rubble and stands approximately 2 meters high above the upper ground level, built into the edge of a steep slope that runs parallel with the River Lune. The Wery Wall is mentioned as a boundary in documents from the 11th to the 18th century, suggesting that its remains may have been more extensive in the past. Excavations in the early 1970s, conducted prior to the development of the adjacent Mitre House, confirmed its Roman origins. It likely formed part of a polygonal external bastion at the north angle of a fort of the 'Saxon Shore' type, constructed around AD 330 on a new alignment. An associated ditch cut through an earlier bath house, which was also excavated, and its consolidated remains are now exposed and adjoin the Wery Wall.
Local climate
Wery 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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