Aire and Calder Navigation Birkwood Lock at SE 359 240 is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Lock.
Aire and Calder Navigation Birkwood Lock at SE 359 240
- WRENN ID
- proud-chancel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Lock
- Address
- Aire and Calder Navigation Birkwood Lock at SE 359 240, Normanton and Altofts
- OS grid reference
- SE 359 240
- Coordinates
- 53.71156, -1.45657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birkwood Lock is a lock on the Calder Cut of the Aire and Calder Navigation, opened in 1839. It was designed by the engineers George Leather and Son of Leeds. The lock is constructed from large dressed blocks of sandstone, with some concrete repairs, and features wooden gates. It has quadrantally curved entrances at each end, along with upper and lower gates, as well as intermediate gates that were manually operated until the 1960s and are now operated hydraulically by electric power. There is an overflow sluice located at the north-west corner. A modern control cabin and bridge are present but are not included in this listing.
Local climate
Aire and Calder Navigation Birkwood Lock at SE 359 240 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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