Water Supply Head is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Water supply head.
Water Supply Head
- WRENN ID
- lunar-shingle-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Water supply head
- Address
- Water Supply Head, Park View, Woolland
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 076
- Coordinates
- 50.86758, -2.31944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water supply head, dated 1888, is made of ashlar and features gabled stone coping. It consists of a basin set within an elliptically headed recess. There are two inscriptions: one is located above the recess, and the other is on a marble tablet within the recess.
Local climate
Water Supply Head receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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