Lock Keepers Cottage at Chemistry Lock, with Walled Yard and Privy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Cottage.
Lock Keepers Cottage at Chemistry Lock, with Walled Yard and Privy
- WRENN ID
- errant-lantern-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lock Keepers Cottage at Chemistry Lock, with Walled Yard and Privy, Chester Canal
- OS grid reference
- SJ 421 666
- Coordinates
- 53.19415, -2.86787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lock keeper's cottage at Chemistry Lock, with a walled yard and privy, dates from around 1800. It is constructed of painted brick and features a grey slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high. The side facing the canal has a flush gable end with a four-flue chimney and a small window on each storey. The left side has a projecting gable end with a replaced cross-casement window on the ground floor and a four-pane horned recessed sash window on the first floor, along with a door on the side of the rear wing. The rear of the cottage has a gable end with a four-pane casement window on each storey. The interior has not been inspected. A circular-section culvert runs beneath the cottage and the detached privy, which is located across the small yard. The yard is made of brick and has a single-pitch roof with a boarded door. The privy, now conventionally drained, was originally designed to discharge into the sluiceway beneath, similar to a monastic rere-dorter.
Local climate
Lock Keepers Cottage at Chemistry Lock, with Walled Yard and Privy 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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