Tarvin Road Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Canal lock.

Tarvin Road Lock

WRENN ID
third-facade-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
Canal lock
Address
Tarvin Road Lock, Old Pearl Lane, Great Boughton
OS grid reference
SJ 426 664
Coordinates
53.19219, -2.85957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tarvin Road Lock is a canal lock built around 1775 by Samuel Weston for the Chester Canal Company, with later repairs. It is constructed from orange and blue brick in English bond, featuring stone quoins, copings, and piers. The lock has a pair of wooden gates on the west side and modern steel gates on the east side. There is a simple 20th-century concrete bridge and a set of stone steps located in the south-west corner.

Local climate

Tarvin Road Lock receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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