Sluice Gate at West Entrance to Mine Canal Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. Sluice gate. 1 related planning application.
Sluice Gate at West Entrance to Mine Canal Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-roof-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1966
- Type
- Sluice gate
- Address
- Sluice Gate at West Entrance to Mine Canal Tunnel, the Delph
- OS grid reference
- SD 748 005
- Coordinates
- 53.50093, -2.38137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This sluice gate, dating from circa 1760, is located at the west entrance to a mine canal tunnel in Worsley. It was likely designed by James Brindley, although it has undergone significant restoration. The structure is primarily timber and incorporates a cast-iron mechanism. The gate itself slides vertically within side restraints. A hand-turned winch, featuring cast-iron cog-wheels and a pulley, was designed to lift and lower the gate within a simple A-frame structure that utilizes the quarry face as one of its supports. The sluice gate’s function was to allow mine boats to exit via a surge of water.
Local climate
Sluice Gate at West Entrance to Mine Canal Tunnel 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 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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