Lock Keeper's Hut Between Lower Mersey Street and Lower Dock Basin is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. Hut.
Lock Keeper's Hut Between Lower Mersey Street and Lower Dock Basin
- WRENN ID
- buried-stair-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hut
- OS grid reference
- SJ 404 773
- Coordinates
- 53.28947, -2.89524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lock Keeper's Hut, located between Lower Mersey Street and Lower Dock Basin in Ellesmere Port & Neston, is an early to mid-19th century modest two-room structure made of small handmade red brick. It features a pyramid roof covered with slate. At the rear, there is a later addition, a small office constructed from wire-cut blue-red brick with a lean-to roof. The hut has a brick chimney and a timber bay window facing the canal, which was restored in 1982-1983.
Local climate
Lock Keeper's Hut Between Lower Mersey Street and Lower Dock Basin 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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