Lock on Horbury Side Cut Approximately 150 Metres North West of Horbury Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Lock.
Lock on Horbury Side Cut Approximately 150 Metres North West of Horbury Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sharp-mortar-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1988
- Type
- Lock
- OS grid reference
- SE 278 180
- Coordinates
- 53.65815, -1.57975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This lock, built around 1838, is located approximately 150 meters northwest of Horbury Bridge on the north side of Horbury New Road. It features deeply coursed squared stone abutments that are rounded on the north side, blending into the banks of the River Calder. On the south side, the lock connects to a basin or lay-by, which is linked by a double bridge to the Calder and Hebble Navigation, Horbury Cut. The lock has a single pair of wooden gates.
Local climate
Lock on Horbury Side Cut Approximately 150 Metres North West of Horbury Bridge 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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