Marple Locks Number 16 and Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Lock, footbridge. 1 related planning application.
Marple Locks Number 16 and Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal
- WRENN ID
- muffled-finial-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Lock, footbridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 961 884
- Coordinates
- 53.39307, -2.05968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marple Locks Number 16 and the adjoining footbridge are located on the Peak Forest Canal and were constructed between 1803 and 1805. The engineers for this project were Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown, financed by S. Oldknow and R. Arkwright, and built by James and Fox. The structure is made of dressed stone and ashlar, with rebuilt retaining walls in brick. It features a single upper gate, a double lower gate, and a footbridge at the lower end. The design accommodates a 4-meter difference in height from the canal to the pound level due to the steep slope. The brick walls have stone verges, and the mouth of the lock is grooved for stop planks. The gates have been overhauled and are fully functional. The footbridge has a segmental arch with a rusticated keystone, an ashlar band, and an ashlar parapet that is finished with square piers. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Marple Locks Number 16 and Adjoining Footbridge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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