Lock joining Aire and Calder Navigation Old Cut with River Calder is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1971. Lock. 1 related planning application.

Lock joining Aire and Calder Navigation Old Cut with River Calder

WRENN ID
half-gutter-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1971
Type
Lock
Address
Lock joining Aire and Calder Navigation Old Cut with River Calder, Calder Vale Road, WF1 5PE
OS grid reference
SE 343 198
Coordinates
53.67429, -1.48201
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lock joining the Aire and Calder Navigation Old Cut with the River Calder is an early 18th-century structure, built following Acts 10 and 11 of William III in 1699. It features a small basin above the lock with brick walls topped with granitic coping. Below the upper gates, there is a narrow lock made of coursed squared stone, which has slightly rounded coping. The lock has two pairs of gates that are currently disused.

Local climate

Lock joining Aire and Calder Navigation Old Cut with River Calder receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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