Retaining Wall to High Level Line is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1987. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall to High Level Line
- WRENN ID
- white-barrel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East MP: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1987
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall to High Level Line, Lock Street, City of Wolverhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 918 990
- Coordinates
- 52.58942, -2.12146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall to the high level railway line, built around 1880 for the London and North Western Railway, is located between the Wednesfield Road railway bridge and the Lock Street railway bridge in Wolverhampton. Constructed from blue engineering brick with ashlar dressings, the wall features one half bay next to the stone-quoined north abutment of the Wednesfield Road bridge and an additional 24 bays leading to the Lock Street bridge on the north-west side of the line. The bays are marked by full-height pilaster strips set on a continuous offset plinth, topped with a moulded stone capping. The cornice includes a stone-coped brick parapet, and the plinths and cornices curve around the pilaster strips. Each bay contains a large square panel, which resembles the panel found on the parapet. This wall is similar in design to the retaining wall located between Cornmarket Street and Wednesfield Road bridges.
Local climate
Retaining Wall to High Level Line receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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