Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1998. Sluice gate.

Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill

WRENN ID
rough-flue-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1998
Type
Sluice gate
Address
Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill, Lower Harpenden Road, Wheathampstead, St. Albans
OS grid reference
TL 132 170
Coordinates
51.84023, -0.35787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sluice gate to the north of Hyde Mill is a late 19th-century structure that has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It features a timber and cast-iron design, with brick walling for the water channels. The sluice gate itself is made of studded timber, with horizontally-boarded sections set between upright timber posts. It has vertical side boards and includes two toothed iron racks mounted vertically on them. Iron pinion wheels are attached to either end of a horizontal roller, which, when turned, raises the gate to allow water to flow from the mill head race channel into a brick-lined overflow channel to the west. This sluice gate is part of the water control system for Hyde Mill and is grouped with the mill and the nearby farm buildings and mill office.

Local climate

Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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