The Pimple is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Reservoir entrance.
The Pimple
- WRENN ID
- sharp-ember-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Reservoir entrance
- Address
- The Pimple, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 491 735
- Coordinates
- 50.54207, -4.12994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pimple is a reservoir entrance built in 1914 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Duke of Bedford. It features Hurdwick stone and a Delabole slate tetrahedral roof with a finial, bellcast design, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The building has a triangular shape on plan and a circular plan plinth that forms segmental sears on three sides. There is a doorway on one side. This small structure was constructed over the entrance to a reservoir on Whitchurch Down, which supplied water to the Bedford estate houses and a house called Littlecourt, also designed by Lutyens, between 1910 and 1941.
Local climate
The Pimple sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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