Cottage Immediately North of Lock Number 1 (Top Lock) is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1991. Cottage.
Cottage Immediately North of Lock Number 1 (Top Lock)
- WRENN ID
- cold-doorway-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage Immediately North of Lock Number 1 (Top Lock), Tame Valley Canal B44
- OS grid reference
- SP 059 927
- Coordinates
- 52.5327, -1.91435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lock cottage with an attached office, built between 1841 and 1844, and later altered. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped roof covered with concrete tiles, supported by two large ridge stacks. The building has a heavily rusticated appearance, with quoins and a dentilled eaves cornice. It stands two storeys high and has five bays.
On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a single doorway with a 20th-century door, followed by a canted four-light bay window with a flat roof that was part of the former office. Next is a single six-light sash window, then another doorway with a 20th-century door, followed by another six-light sash window. The first floor contains three regularly spaced six-light sash windows. All door and window openings, except for the bay window, have chamfered reveals and cambered arches.
Local climate
Cottage Immediately North of Lock Number 1 (Top Lock) receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% 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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