Kirkstall Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Lock. 2 related planning applications.

Kirkstall Lock

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Lock
Address
Kirkstall Lock, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
OS grid reference
SE 256 358
Coordinates
53.81854, -1.61193
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kirkstall Lock is a lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, built between 1770 and 1777, with 20th-century restoration and alterations. It features two pairs of timber gates and cast-iron machinery, along with ashlar and gritstone retaining walls for the lock and overflow channel. The lock raises the canal by approximately 2 meters. Notably, a view of the lock was painted by JMW Turner during his tour of Yorkshire in 1824.

Local climate

Kirkstall Lock receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% 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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