Water Pump Adjacent to Watch Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Water pump.
Water Pump Adjacent to Watch Tower
- WRENN ID
- narrow-groin-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Water pump
- OS grid reference
- SJ 490 122
- Coordinates
- 52.70536, -2.75607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water pump adjacent to the Watch Tower in Shrewsbury is a Grade II listed conduit head, dating from around 1870. Made of cast iron, it features a short fluted shaft adorned with a lion head decoration and the inscription "Wast Not Want Not." The pump has a restored fluted cap and is part of a series of conduit heads that make up the town's water supply distribution system, which is piped from the main conduit head at Nobold Lane. Originally, this pump was located approximately 20 meters east of its current position.
Local climate
Water Pump Adjacent to Watch Tower receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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