Sewer Ventilation Pipe Adjoining North West Corner of 1-1a Barnstaple Street (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1991. Sewer ventilation pipe.
Sewer Ventilation Pipe Adjoining North West Corner of 1-1a Barnstaple Street (Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lime-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1991
- Type
- Sewer ventilation pipe
- Address
- Sewer Ventilation Pipe Adjoining North West Corner of 1-1a Barnstaple Street (Not Included), Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 457 265
- Coordinates
- 51.01782, -4.20017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sewer ventilation pipe, located at the northwest corner of 1-1A Barnstaple Street, was likely constructed between 1901 and 1902. The engineer for this project was Baldwin Latham from Parliament Mansions in Westminster, and the contractor was E Ellis from Bideford. This tall, cylindrical iron pipe is designed to resemble a tapering Gothic shaft, complete with a pedestal, moulded base, and foliated capital. About halfway up the shaft, there is a projecting moulded band that conceals a joint. At the top, the shaft features an arrow indicating the direction of the sewer, above which is a ball with open lugs facing in all four directions, finished with a tall finial encircled by a coronet. The shaft is moulded with the maker's name; while the upper part is illegible, the visible portion reads "GLASGOW. SARACEN FOUNDRY." This pipe is identical to another located at the opposite end of East-the-Water in Torrington Street, and both likely date from the same sewer re-laying project that included the installation of ventilators.
Local climate
Sewer Ventilation Pipe Adjoining North West Corner of 1-1a Barnstaple Street (Not Included) receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 90% 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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