Rochdale Canal Lock Number 87, to East of Princess Street, with Cast Iron Footbridge Beside Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Canal lock. 7 related planning applications.

Rochdale Canal Lock Number 87, to East of Princess Street, with Cast Iron Footbridge Beside Street

WRENN ID
former-spindle-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Canal lock
Address
Rochdale Canal Lock Number 87, to East of Princess Street, with Cast Iron Footbridge Beside Street, M1 6JB
OS grid reference
SJ 842 977
Coordinates
53.47617, -2.2383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rochdale Canal Lock Number 87, located to the east of Princess Street, features a cast-iron footbridge beside the street. Built between 1804 and 1805 for the Rochdale Canal Company, the lock has been restored and is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with wooden gates. The chamber is 14 feet wide and has pairs of gates at both ends, along with a ladder in the center of the south side. The cast-iron footbridge crosses the lower entry and has panelled sides. This lock is the fourth in a series of nine locks that extend the former Rochdale Canal basin at Dale Street to the Bridgewater Canal basin at Castlefield, and it remains in working order. It forms a group with the boundary wall of Canal Street on the north side.

Local climate

Rochdale Canal Lock Number 87, to East of Princess Street, with Cast Iron Footbridge Beside Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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