Lock 400 Yards East of Lodge Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. A C18 Canal lock.

Lock 400 Yards East of Lodge Farm

WRENN ID
heavy-postern-cobweb
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 258 192
Coordinates
53.66947, -1.60983
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This canal lock, located 400 yards east of Lodge Farm, dates from around 1769 and was engineered by John Smeaton. It features stone sides, which have undergone some repair work, along with concrete copings. The lock has two pairs of wooden gates, each equipped with steel, box section push-bars.

Local climate

Lock 400 Yards East of Lodge Farm receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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