Wash House Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Canal lock.
Wash House Lock
- WRENN ID
- muffled-moulding-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Canal lock
- Address
- Wash House Lock, Kennet and Avon Canal
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 642
- Coordinates
- 51.37719, -2.35135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wash House Lock is a canal lock built around 1800 and restored in 1971, designed by engineer John Rennie. It features a brick-lined basin with heavy sandstone coping that is rounded and splayed at the upper end. At the lower end, the coping is splayed and ramps down to the east, while the west wall continues down with a steep coped ramp that returns at a right angle to the canal wall. A bridge crosses the lower end of the lock. There are two pairs of timber gates and cast iron winch gear located at the upper end. The Kennet and Avon Canal, of which this lock is a part, was fully opened in 1810.
Local climate
Wash House Lock receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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