Water Pump at Launceston Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Water pump.
Water Pump at Launceston Castle
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gable-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Water pump
- Address
- Water Pump at Launceston Castle, Western Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 330 845
- Coordinates
- 50.63681, -4.36199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water pump at Launceston Castle, dated 1739 and inscribed with "IH," is located at the well-head. It features a lead pump head, wooden casing, and a dressed granite water trough. The structure is square in shape and has a lead spout that leads to a round-arched panelled front. Similar panelled designs are present on the other sides, and there is a shaped iron handle on the right side.
Local climate
Water Pump at Launceston Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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