The Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Lock-up.
The Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- old-crypt-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- The Lock Up, Bellbrook, Penkridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 925 141
- Coordinates
- 52.72508, -2.11213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lock-up is an early 19th-century structure located in Penkridge. It is built of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building is one storey high with dentilled eaves and is roughly two bays wide. There is a central boarded door, with a small square window immediately to the left that has iron bars, and a blocked segmental-headed window to the right. The Lock-up is situated opposite the Old Cottage and is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Lock Up receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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