Ricketts Lock and Lock Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Lock and lock gates.
Ricketts Lock and Lock Gates
- WRENN ID
- patient-sentry-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Lock and lock gates
- Address
- Ricketts Lock and Lock Gates, Ulting Lane, Langford
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 086
- Coordinates
- 51.74677, 0.64415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ricketts Lock and Lock Gates are located on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation and were built around 1797. The engineer was John Rennie, with supervision by Richard Coates. The structure features red brick walls topped with large granite coping stones and quoins. The lockgates are made of wood, with winding gear on the eastern gates and towpath winding gear on the western gates. There are four circular iron bollards on the north bank and one similar bollard on the south bank.
Local climate
Ricketts Lock and Lock Gates sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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