Operating Gear is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 December 1994. House.
Operating Gear
- WRENN ID
- over-terrace-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Operating Gear, Burgedin Locks, Burgedin, Llandrinio
- OS grid reference
- SJ 252 146
- Coordinates
- 52.72429, -3.10892
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Operating Gear is a structure featuring engineering brick walls topped with heavy stone copings. At the upper end, there is a ground paddle and a gate, along with a segmental section in the north wall of the chamber. Similar segmental sections are present at the lower end. An iron guard rail, approximately 150 mm by 12 mm, runs along the narrowing of the upper pound and the headland between this and the Guilsfield Canal arm. On the northwest bank, there is radial-arm paddle gear made by the Coalbrookdale Company, which is enclosed on three sides by heavy stone blocks. This structure was likely designed by George Buck during the engineering improvements to the canal that took place between 1819 and 1831. Iron-shod timber gates were removed at the time of inspection in August 1994.
Local climate
Operating Gear receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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