Ashton Canal Lock Number 6 Immediately East of Forge Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Canal lock. 1 related planning application.
Ashton Canal Lock Number 6 Immediately East of Forge Lane
- WRENN ID
- muffled-cobble-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Canal lock
- OS grid reference
- SJ 868 987
- Coordinates
- 53.4857, -2.19901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton Canal Lock Number 6 is a canal lock built between 1792 and 1799 for the Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Canal Company. It has been renovated and features large blocks of millstone grit along with some red brick and wooden gates. This narrow lock has a chamber that is 7 feet wide and includes a covered overflow channel on the south side. Stone staircases flank the lower entry at the west end, and there is an extended bullnose at the top end of the island. This lock is the fourth in a series of 13 similar locks, all of which are in working order.
Local climate
Ashton Canal Lock Number 6 Immediately East of Forge Lane 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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