Retaining Wall to North West of Wray Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall to North West of Wray Castle
- WRENN ID
- plain-vestry-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall to North West of Wray Castle, Claife, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0JA
- OS grid reference
- NY 374 010
- Coordinates
- 54.40097, -2.96442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall located to the north-west of Wray Castle is a Grade II listed structure. It extends approximately 37 meters from the entrance drive and curves to connect with the angle of the castle. The wall features weathered buttresses and has steps at each end. The buttress at the north-western end originally projected from an ornamental ruin that has since been demolished.
Local climate
Retaining Wall to North West of Wray Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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