Top Lock, Ryder's Green Locks Adjoining Ryder's Green Road Walsall Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. A N/A Lock.
Top Lock, Ryder's Green Locks Adjoining Ryder's Green Road Walsall Canal
- WRENN ID
- brooding-plinth-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich MP: Sarah Coombes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lock
- Period
- N/A
- OS grid reference
- SO 985 917
- Coordinates
- 52.52334, -2.02279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Lock is the first lock in a flight of eight on the Walsall Canal, completed in 1786. It is constructed of blue brick, with sandstone kerbs to the chambers, although these have been partly replaced by concrete. The lock features single gates and has cast iron sluice gear on each bank on the upstream side.
Local climate
Top Lock, Ryder's Green Locks Adjoining Ryder's Green Road Walsall Canal receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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