Leeds and Liverpool Canal British Waterways Authority Works Depot Building by Summit of Dobson Locks is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1978. Industrial building.

Leeds and Liverpool Canal British Waterways Authority Works Depot Building by Summit of Dobson Locks

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford East MP: Imran Hussain (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1978
Type
Industrial building
OS grid reference
SE 187 381
Coordinates
53.83963, -1.71622
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The British Waterways Authority Works Depot building, located by the summit of Dobson Locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, dates from around 1800. It is a two-storey structure made of sandstone "brick" with a stone slate roof featuring saddlestones at the gable ends. The building has four windows with fixed glazing bars and two hatches. Additionally, there is a single-storey office section that includes two windows flanking a door.

Local climate

Leeds and Liverpool Canal British Waterways Authority Works Depot Building by Summit of Dobson Locks receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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