Lock Below Canal Head, Driffield Canal is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1986. Canal lock.
Lock Below Canal Head, Driffield Canal
- WRENN ID
- ragged-hearth-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1986
- Type
- Canal lock
- OS grid reference
- TA 031 569
- Coordinates
- 53.99793, -0.42869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a canal lock built around 1768 by John Grundy for the Driffield Navigation. It is constructed of red brick with gritstone dressings. The lock chamber has parallel sides that narrow towards the gates, with only the upstream gates still remaining.
Local climate
Lock Below Canal Head, Driffield Canal receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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