Water hydrant outside Salisbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Water hydrant.
Water hydrant outside Salisbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-flue-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Water hydrant
- Address
- Water hydrant outside Salisbury Cottage, North Street, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, TA18 7RJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 471 111
- Coordinates
- 50.89715, -2.75286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water hydrant located outside Salisbury Cottage is a cast iron structure produced by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock, dating from the late 19th century or early 20th century.
It features a fluted pillar mounted on a plinth, with a decorative band at the head, topped by a fluted domical cap that has a bud finial. A lion head is cast into one side of the hydrant, and there are four spouts with keyed stoppers integrated into the band. The hydrant is positioned on a square stone base.
Local climate
Water hydrant outside Salisbury Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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