Number 2 Graving Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Graving dock.

Number 2 Graving Dock

WRENN ID
dim-dormer-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1985
Type
Graving dock
Address
Number 2 Graving Dock, Canning Dock
OS grid reference
SJ 340 899
Coordinates
53.40232, -2.99306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 Graving Dock is a graving dock built in 1765, which was lengthened in 1813 and deepened by J Hartley in 1842. It is constructed of sandstone and granite, featuring stepped stone sides with granite barrel runs, three on each side. The dock has granite coping and granite bollards around its sides. It is located to the south of No. 1 Graving Dock and is now part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Local climate

Number 2 Graving Dock sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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