Bottom Lock and Attached Cantilever Footbridge, Factory Locks (Approximately 50 Meters North of Furnace Parade) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Lock, footbridge. 1 related planning application.

Bottom Lock and Attached Cantilever Footbridge, Factory Locks (Approximately 50 Meters North of Furnace Parade) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level

WRENN ID
plain-doorway-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sandwell
Constituency
Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Lock, footbridge
OS grid reference
SO 952 926
Coordinates
52.53146, -2.07084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bottom Lock and attached cantilever footbridge at Factory Locks, located approximately 50 meters north of Furnace Parade in Birmingham, was constructed around 1829 and designed by engineer Thomas Telford. This structure is part of a flight of three locks. It features brick construction with sandstone kerbs in the lock chambers, although some of these have been replaced by concrete. There is cast-iron sluice gear at the upper side and single gates. At the lower end of the lock chamber, a cantilevered cast-iron footbridge extends from the southern bank, allowing a tow rope to pass through the gap between the bridge and the northern bank. The sides of the footbridge are cast in one piece, with a handrail that curves up from a flat deck, and they are designed with a cross-braced pattern. This flight of locks raises Telford's New Main Line on the Birmingham Level up to the 473 feet Wolverhampton Level.

Local climate

Bottom Lock and Attached Cantilever Footbridge, Factory Locks (Approximately 50 Meters North of Furnace Parade) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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