Slippery Gowt Sluice is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 2000. Drainage sluice.
Slippery Gowt Sluice
- WRENN ID
- plain-rubblework-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 2000
- Type
- Drainage sluice
- Address
- Slippery Gowt Sluice, Slippery Gowt Lane, Wyberton
- OS grid reference
- TF 341 413
- Coordinates
- 52.95321, -0.005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slippery Gowt Sluice is a drainage sluice built in 1733 for the Court of Sewers. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings. The brick round-arched tunnel measures 38 feet long, 6 feet high, and 3 feet 6 inches wide. The main front features a round-arched tunnel entrance with an ashlar keystone inscribed with "TB 1733" and splayed brick walls. The other entrance has a similar round-arched design, with embanked brick side walls that include ashlar quoins and coping. This sluice was one of two sluices that served as outfalls for the Wyberton Towns Drain and was built at a cost of £297 11 shillings.
Local climate
Slippery Gowt Sluice sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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