Conduit with Containing Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Conduit.

Conduit with Containing Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
sunken-minaret-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Conduit
Address
Conduit with Containing Walls and Railings, Brownston Street, Modbury
OS grid reference
SX 659 518
Coordinates
50.35099, -3.88617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The conduit, built in 1708 but dated 1874, was relocated from the center of the street to its current position. It is constructed from large cut granite blocks and features a square structure with an offset plinth and a heavy roll-mould cornice. The cornice supports a weathered pyramidal crown topped with a large ball finial and smaller finials at the four lower corners. The right side of the conduit has an opening. It is set on a paved area that is enclosed by walls with hit and miss copings, and at the front, there are two square piers with pyramid caps. From these piers, small curved segment walls approximately 1 meter high lead to weathered copings, which support cast iron spear-head railings that extend back to the sides of the conduit house. An inscription panel on the structure reads: "DONO ADRIANI SWETE EQUITIS DE TRAIN ANO DOM 1708 IN HUNC SITUM E MEDIA VIA TRANSLATUM 1874." This conduit was part of the water supply system for Modbury and was in use until the 1950s.

Local climate

Conduit with Containing Walls and Railings receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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