Bowly's Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1981. Pump house.
Bowly's Pump
- WRENN ID
- sunken-wattle-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1981
- Type
- Pump house
- Address
- Bowly's Pump, Watermoor, Cirencester
- OS grid reference
- SP 024 016
- Coordinates
- 51.71342, -1.96595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowly's Pump is a pump and pump house located on Watermoor Road in Cirencester. The pump was originally installed in 1864 and was a gift to the almshouses and the local community from Thomas Brewin. It was re-sited to its current location around the time the shelter was built, which was constructed between 1924 and 1925 by N Jewson. The structure features ashlar piers at the front and coursed squared limestone rubble on the sides and rear, topped with a stone slate hipped roof. It is a small rectangular building that is open at the front, providing shelter for an attached timber-encased pump and a small stone trough with a curved front. The timber lintel above the opening has the incised lettering "BOWLY'S PUMP." The rear angles of the structure are rounded, and the roof is corbelled out. This building is included for its group value with the nearby Sarah Bowly Almshouses.
Local climate
Bowly's Pump receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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