Dry Dock is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Dry dock.
Dry Dock
- WRENN ID
- lesser-rubble-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Dry dock
- Address
- Dry Dock, Braunston Wharf
- OS grid reference
- SP 539 657
- Coordinates
- 52.28755, -1.21117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dry dock at Braunston Wharf dates from around 1800 and is constructed of painted brick with an artificial stone slate roof. It features seven bays, each originally with a flat brick arch that has been blocked. In the blocking, there are now four-light casement windows with wooden lintels, and a doorway with a plank door is located in the third bay from the left. The building has seven skylights and similar blocked arches at the rear. The right side is partly timber boarded and includes a boat entrance with 2nd-century doors. On the left side, there are two brick buttresses flanking a doorway that has an arched wooden frame and a flat timber hood supported by brackets. Blocked windows are set in arched brick recesses on either side of the doorway, with an arched window above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dry Dock receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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