Pant Outside Westgate House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Water feature.

Pant Outside Westgate House

WRENN ID
night-merlon-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1977
Type
Water feature
Address
Pant Outside Westgate House, Clayport Street, Alnwick
OS grid reference
NU 184 131
Coordinates
55.41174, -1.71077
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pant outside Westgate House, dating from 1755, is a low and square structure made of ashlar. It features a coved and ogee top, which is partly asphalted, and is topped with a ball finial. The pant includes a pipe in a worn-out stone tank that has an ogee panel displaying the names of the chamberlains: Hr William Hindmarsh, Mr Robt. Richardson, Mr Edw. Bell, and one obscured name, dating to about the mid-18th century.

Local climate

Pant Outside Westgate House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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