Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Sluice.
Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- eternal-buttress-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Sluice
- Address
- Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary, Great Abington
- OS grid reference
- TL 526 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12028, 0.22833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and two plaques to the former sluice on the River Granta, located west of the Parish Church of St Mary in Little Abington, date back to 1721. The structure features limestone plaques and a local stock brick wall. Originally, the plaques were positioned on opposite banks of the river, each inscribed with the words, "The bottom or lowest part of this stone is the height of ye Floodgate of this sluce 1721."
The original three-sluice dam and a new cut were part of a project aimed at flooding the water meadows between Abington and Babraham, designed and partly carried out by Hugh May around 1654 for his cousin Thomas Benet of Babraham. A lawsuit around 1720 involving John Benet and Thomas Wester necessitated the installation of a flood gate to prevent flooding in Abington. A new cut created further south in the 19th century likely rendered the 17th-century sluice obsolete, and it is probable that the two plaques were relocated to the south bank wall at that time.
Local climate
Walls and Plaques to Former Sluice on River Granta West of Parish Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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