Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock No 22w (Dunge Booth Lock) is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A C18 Canal lock. 1 related planning application.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock No 22w (Dunge Booth Lock)
- WRENN ID
- tangled-rubblework-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Canal lock
- Address
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock No 22w (Dunge Booth Lock), Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 995 060
- Coordinates
- 53.55149, -2.00766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lock No. 22W, also known as Dunge Booth Lock, is located on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in Saddleworth. It was constructed between 1794 and 1799 under the engineering of Benjamin Outram. The lock is made of hammer-dressed stone with tooled markings. It features a single upper gate and a double lower gate, with the mouth designed to accommodate stop planks. In 1984, a boatman's ladder was added to the lock wall during restoration work.
Local climate
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock No 22w (Dunge Booth Lock) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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