Leeds and Liverpool Canal Five Rise Locks with Overflow Channel is a Grade I listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. A C18 Canal locks. 2 related planning applications.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Five Rise Locks with Overflow Channel
- WRENN ID
- stony-forge-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Canal locks
- Address
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Five Rise Locks with Overflow Channel, Bingley
- OS grid reference
- SE 107 399
- Coordinates
- 53.85576, -1.83794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Rise Locks with overflow channel on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal were constructed around 1773 by John Longbottom. They feature large dressed stone retaining walls with rebates for gates. The first lock has widely splayed sloping walls on either side, while the other locks have ramped walls leading to curved platforms that are accessed by a flight of 15 stone steps on both sides. Each lock has overflow channels that issue at right angles, spilling into a wider sloping channel that flows into the canal at a lower level to the right of the first lock.
The canal was authorized by an Act of 1768 and was planned by James Brindley. This section was built by local masons and remains in virtually unaltered condition. These locks, including the 3, 2, and 1 Rise Locks, raise boats to a height of 120 feet and are considered one of the most significant flights of locks in the country, with the Five Rise Locks being one of the greatest engineering feats of the canal age.
Local climate
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Five Rise Locks with Overflow Channel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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