Lower Maunsell Bridge at St 308298 Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 at St 308298 Maunsell Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1989. Lock and bridge.
Lower Maunsell Bridge at St 308298 Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 at St 308298 Maunsell Lock
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-minaret-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1989
- Type
- Lock and bridge
- Address
- Lower Maunsell Bridge at St 308298 Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 at St 308298 Maunsell Lock, North Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 307 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06306, -2.98896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 and Lower Maunsell Bridge, also known as Maunsel Lock, were built between 1824 and 1827 and restored in the 20th century. The lock features a brick chamber and has two sets of double wooden gates with concrete balance beams. It includes counterweighted ground paddle gearing at the top, using metal ball weights, and counterweighted gate paddle gearing at the bottom, using metal cylindrical weights. This type of paddle gearing is unique to the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. The bridge across the lock tail is made of brick and has a single horseshoe arch, a band, a solid parapet with brick coping, and piers topped with stone coping. The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal was engineered by James Hollinsworth during its construction.
Local climate
Lower Maunsell Bridge at St 308298 Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 at St 308298 Maunsell Lock receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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