Lockkeeper's Cottage Adjacent to Lock Number 9 on Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cottage.

Lockkeeper's Cottage Adjacent to Lock Number 9 on Peak Forest Canal

WRENN ID
rooted-lancet-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stockport
Constituency
Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SJ 961 890
Coordinates
53.39848, -2.05876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lockkeeper's cottage, probably built around 1805, is located adjacent to Lock Number 9 on the Peak Forest Canal. The cottage is constructed from random stone with a slate roof and features a brick chimney stack. It has one room on the ground floor and two rooms on the first floor, along with an outshut wing at the rear. Notable architectural details include stone quoins and shaped stone gutter brackets. The entrance door is obscured by a later porch, and there is a three-light flat-faced mullion window on each floor, which has multi-paned casements and 20th-century replacements. The right side of the cottage has two one-light windows, while the left side has four. A single ridge chimney stack is present. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Lockkeeper's Cottage Adjacent to Lock Number 9 on Peak Forest Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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