Lock No 66 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Lock. 2 related planning applications.
Lock No 66
- WRENN ID
- little-vault-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Lock
- Address
- Lock No 66, Trent and Mersey Canal, Sandbach
- OS grid reference
- SJ 754 592
- Coordinates
- 53.12972, -2.36773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lock No. 66 is a pair of parallel locks located on the Trent and Mersey Canal, with the south lock constructed around 1775 by engineer James Brindley and the north lock added around 1830 under consultant Thomas Telford. The locks are built from blue and red bricks with stone dressing and feature wooden gates. The south lock has raking stone abutments that integrate with stone steps, and the lock side copings are made of stone. The lower wooden gates on the south lock were replaced in 1938, and the upper east gate was replaced in wood in 1986. The north lock has rusticated vertical stone abutments and stone copings on the north side, while the south side is mainly concrete. The upper west gates of the north lock were replaced in wood in 1959, and the lower gate was also replaced in wood in 1984.
Local climate
Lock No 66 receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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