Lock Keepers Office is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Office building.

Lock Keepers Office

WRENN ID
moated-beam-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1984
Type
Office building
Address
Lock Keepers Office, Town Lane, Whittle-Le-Woods
OS grid reference
SD 591 209
Coordinates
53.68365, -2.62038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lock Keeper's Office is an office building located at the west end of the fourth lock, likely built around 1816. It is constructed from coursed stone and features a slate roof with stone gable copings and a chimney at the rear gable. The building has a square single-cell plan and is built into a slope, making it one storey on the road (north) side and two storeys on the south side. The gabled front faces the bridge and includes a board door on the right, which is accessed by a stone step that is protected on two sides by iron railings with a ramped handrail. There is also a fixed window with four large panes in a plain stone case. On the south side, there is a boarded basement door with a large lintel, a small basement window, and a top-hung casement window above.

Local climate

Lock Keepers Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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