Allt-yr-yn Lock and Little Lock, with intermediate bridge and basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 1999. Infrastructure.

Allt-yr-yn Lock and Little Lock, with intermediate bridge and basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

WRENN ID
twelfth-roof-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 1999
Type
Infrastructure
OS grid reference
ST 296 889
Coordinates
51.59467, -3.01699
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Allt-yr-yn Lock and Little Lock, located on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, features lock chambers constructed from both rubble and brick, with tooled sandstone copings. There is a rebate for a removed lock gate on the eastern side. At the western end, a rubble weir is present, with splayed retaining walls extending beyond it. Immediately to the east, there is a narrow bridge with a segmental arch, made of roughly dressed stone voussoirs. The bridge has splayed parapets with tooled chamfered copings, although some of these have been partly replaced with cement. East of the bridge, there is a stone-lined basin that is approximately 12 metres long. The Little Lock chamber also includes a rubble-built weir at the western end and rebates for removed lock gates at the eastern end, with its walls made of rubble and brick and squared sandstone copings. Additionally, there are straight retaining cheek-walls to the east of the Little Lock.

Local climate

Allt-yr-yn Lock and Little Lock, with intermediate bridge and basin, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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