Burrator Dam is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Dam.
Burrator Dam
- WRENN ID
- distant-chapel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dam
- Address
- Burrator Dam, Meavy, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 551 680
- Coordinates
- 50.494, -4.04371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrator Dam is a reservoir dam built between 1893 and 1898 by engineers James Manserch and Edward Sandeman. It was raised by 10 feet between 1923 and 1928. The dam is constructed of concrete and faced with rusticated rock-faced granite. The outer wall has a significant batter at its base. At the center, there is a 5-bay arcaded weir spillway featuring battered bases to its piers and imposts to segmental arches. The dam includes rusticated stringcourses and coping on the parapets, with the coping raised over the weir spillway. A carriageway runs over the top of the dam, which has a similar parapet on the reservoir side. The abutments of the dam have curved splays. Burrator Reservoir, supplied by the River Meavy, serves the City of Plymouth and Devonport, originally holding 657 million gallons of water, which was increased to 1,026 million gallons after the dam was raised. This dam was the first substantial dam built in the South West of England.
Local climate
Burrator Dam receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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