Top Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Canal lock. 3 related planning applications.
Top Lock
- WRENN ID
- dark-bonework-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Canal lock
- Address
- Top Lock, Kennet and Avon Canal, BA2 6DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 646
- Coordinates
- 51.38046, -2.34904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Lock is a canal lock built around 1800 and restored in 1978. It was designed by the engineer John Rennie. The lock features a brick-lined basin with freestone curbs, along with restored gates, balance beams, and railings. The Kennet and Avon Canal, which this lock is part of, was authorized in 1794 and opened in 1810.
Local climate
Top Lock receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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