The Town Pump is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. Town pump. 1 related planning application.
The Town Pump
- WRENN ID
- iron-cobalt-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1988
- Type
- Town pump
- Address
- The Town Pump, Fore Street, Chulmleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 687 141
- Coordinates
- 50.91215, -3.86821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Pump is an early 19th-century town pump located on the east side of Fore Street in Chulmleigh, designed by J. D. Young and Sons of Barnstaple. It is made of cast iron and features a tall, octagonal shaft divided into two stages, with the upper stage slightly narrower. The base has bar stops on the four main sides and pyramid stops at the moulded base. There is a cast iron pump handle on the south side. The pump is topped with an ogee cap that supports a late 19th-century glass lantern, which is held by wrought iron brackets and adorned with cresting and mythical heads at the corners. The pump is positioned in the center of Fore Street, just west of the former Kings Arms, and the glass lantern replaced an ornate wrought iron name plaque that once directed travelers to the inn.
Local climate
The Town Pump sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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