Upper Two Locks, Brades Locks, South of Brades Hall Bridge, Dudley Road East Birmingham Canal Gower Branch is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. Canal locks.
Upper Two Locks, Brades Locks, South of Brades Hall Bridge, Dudley Road East Birmingham Canal Gower Branch
- WRENN ID
- steep-wattle-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich MP: Sarah Coombes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Canal locks
- OS grid reference
- SO 978 903
- Coordinates
- 52.51117, -2.03299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Two Locks at Brades Locks, located south of Brades Hall Bridge on the Dudley Road East, are a pair of locks that form a staircase on the Gower Branch of the Birmingham Canal. They were completed in 1835. The locks feature brick chambers with sandstone kerbs and cast iron sluice gear, and they have single gates.
Local climate
Upper Two Locks, Brades Locks, South of Brades Hall Bridge, Dudley Road East Birmingham Canal Gower Branch 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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