Calder and Hebble Navigation Lock at New Cut Top at Junction with River Calder is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Canal lock. 1 related planning application.
Calder and Hebble Navigation Lock at New Cut Top at Junction with River Calder
- WRENN ID
- proud-screen-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Canal lock
- OS grid reference
- SE 230 202
- Coordinates
- 53.67865, -1.65195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lock at New Cut Top, located at the junction with the River Calder, is a canal lock built around 1769, designed by engineer John Smeaton. It features stone sides and copings, along with a pair of wooden lock gates that retain their original balance beams. A later iron bridge nearby is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Calder and Hebble Navigation Lock at New Cut Top at Junction with River Calder receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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