The Boat House Adjoining Hatherton Lake in Walsall Aboretum is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 2004. Boat house. 1 related planning application.
The Boat House Adjoining Hatherton Lake in Walsall Aboretum
- WRENN ID
- tangled-oriel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2004
- Type
- Boat house
- Address
- The Boat House Adjoining Hatherton Lake in Walsall Aboretum, WS4 2BU
- OS grid reference
- SP 018 991
- Coordinates
- 52.5903, -1.97342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boat House adjoining Hatherton Lake in Walsall Arboretum is a boat house built around 1874 for the Walsall Arboretum and Lake Company, possibly designed by County Surveyor Robert Griffiths. It features a timber frame with hipped tile roofs and a raised lantern, supported by cast-iron posts and set on a concrete base. This single-storey structure is located approximately 240 meters northeast of the main entrance to the arboretum, right at the edge of Hatherton Lake.
The exterior facing the lake is open, with cast-iron columns framing an off-center embarkation platform and three mooring pens, all covered by a shallow hipped roof that includes a raised ridge lantern. The lantern has a timber-framed open clerestory with finials and bargeboards at its gabled ends. The side and rear walls consist of tongue and groove wood with cross-bracing supports.
Inside, the concrete base supports the structure above water level, with storage areas located beside the mooring pens. The roof structure includes tie beams with short vertical struts leading to collars, and above this is the framing for the ridge lantern, which features small king post trusses with raking struts. Shaped wooden boards are present on both end walls at water level. This Victorian boat house is a significant part of a Grade II Registered municipal landscape park.
Local climate
The Boat House Adjoining Hatherton Lake in Walsall Aboretum receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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