Minshull Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1984. Lock. 1 related planning application.
Minshull Lock
- WRENN ID
- broken-plaster-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1984
- Type
- Lock
- Address
- Minshull Lock, Aston Gorse, Aston Juxta Mondrum, CW5 6DU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 654 585
- Coordinates
- 53.12256, -2.51836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minshull Lock is a lock on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, built around 1830 by Thomas Telford. It is located slightly east of Nanney's Bridge on the B5074 road, which connects Church Minshull to Worleston, and it links the Trent and Mersey Canal at Middlewich with the Shropshire Union Canal at Barbridge. The lock features mainly blue brick walls with sandstone quoins, steps, and copings, as well as timber and metal gates. The upper single (west) gate retains an oak beam, while the lower (east) gates have been replaced with metal. There is little evidence of alteration in the opening gear and materials overall.
Local climate
Minshull Lock receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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