Dry Dock South of Engine House Including Crane is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Dry dock.
Dry Dock South of Engine House Including Crane
- WRENN ID
- drifting-tin-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Dry dock
- Address
- Dry Dock South of Engine House Including Crane, the Docks
- OS grid reference
- SO 825 182
- Coordinates
- 51.86256, -2.25411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dry dock south of the Engine House, built between 1852 and 1853 by William Guest for the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, is a significant structure. It features a brick-lined basin with stone kerbs and a protective railing made of slender cast-iron bollards connected by pairs of pipe rails. Access to the dock is from the south-west side of the Main Basin through a pair of timber gates topped with footbridges. The sides and semicircular end of the dock basin have continuous stepped revetments, and there is an iron crane from the late 19th century. This dry dock was constructed to enable the repair of vessels and the export of coal from Gloucester, allowing for local repairs instead of relying on South Wales ports. Original drawings of the dock can be found in the Gloucestershire Records Office.
Local climate
Dry Dock South of Engine House Including Crane receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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