Pump in Courtyard at Penrose Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Pump.
Pump in Courtyard at Penrose Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- open-groin-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Pump in Courtyard at Penrose Almshouses, Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, EX32 8NH
- OS grid reference
- SS 560 328
- Coordinates
- 51.07698, -4.05621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump located in the courtyard at Penrose Almshouses is likely from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber casing with a lead roof, an iron spout, and a handle. The casing is designed as a vertical box and is topped with lead capping that includes lead rolls at the corners and a lead acorn finial. There is a hole for the spout and a curved handle. This pump is situated in the center of the pitched stone courtyard at Penrose Almshouses.
Local climate
Pump in Courtyard at Penrose Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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