Water pump at junction with Belle Vue Road is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Conduit head.
Water pump at junction with Belle Vue Road
- WRENN ID
- muffled-copper-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Conduit head
- Address
- Water pump at junction with Belle Vue Road, Betton Street, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 497 120
- Coordinates
- 52.70361, -2.74498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water pump located at the junction with Belle Vue Road in Shrewsbury is a conduit head dating from around 1870. It is made of cast iron and features a short fluted shaft topped with a domed cap. The design includes a lion's head and the inscription "Waste not, want not." This conduit is one of ten established in the town by the Shrewsbury Water Company to provide water from the Conduit Head at Nobold.
Local climate
Water pump at junction with Belle Vue Road receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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