Watchhouse Circa 50 Metres East of Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Watchhouse.
Watchhouse Circa 50 Metres East of Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- tired-facade-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Watchhouse
- OS grid reference
- SD 561 281
- Coordinates
- 53.74781, -2.66595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The watchhouse, dated 1835, is located approximately 50 metres east of the Church of St. Leonard in Walton-le-Dale. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a roof made of corrugated metal sheet. The building is set into a slope, presenting two storeys to the road and one storey to the churchyard. The carriage door facing the road has an arched head made of gauged stones with a keystone, and there is a small window above it. The gable has coping and a chimney at the apex. The side wall is watershot, while the rear wall, which is single storey, includes a semicircular doorway with a keystone that is also dated 1835.
Local climate
Watchhouse Circa 50 Metres East of Church of St Leonard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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