Lock Number 2 is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1991. Lock. 2 related planning applications.
Lock Number 2
- WRENN ID
- fading-merlon-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1991
- Type
- Lock
- Address
- Lock Number 2, Tame Valley Canal B44, B42 2LZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 060 927
- Coordinates
- 52.53267, -1.91255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lock Number 2 is a lock on the Tame Valley Canal, built between 1841 and 1844, with some 20th-century alterations. It features a brick chamber and wing walls topped with stone copings. The lock has a single wooden top gate and double steel bottom gates, each equipped with two sets of mechanical ground paddle gearing. There are brick heel grip platforms and a set of original ladders with iron rungs located on the bottom wing walls. The wing walls are also fitted with iron rubbing curbs.
Local climate
Lock Number 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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