Water Hydrant 10 Metres West of Number 39 (The Sherston Inn) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Hydrant.

Water Hydrant 10 Metres West of Number 39 (The Sherston Inn)

WRENN ID
vast-ember-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 2000
Type
Hydrant
Address
Water Hydrant 10 Metres West of Number 39 (The Sherston Inn), BA5 1SU
OS grid reference
ST 545 452
Coordinates
51.20435, -2.65186
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 19th-century water hydrant located 10 metres west of Number 39, known as The Sherston Inn, on Priory Road. It was made by J Stone and Co from Deptford, London. The hydrant features a cast-iron square base with the words "City of Wells" cast on the west side. Above this, there is a fluted circular column that sits on a heavily moulded base, topped with a moulded section. The hydrant includes hose connections on both the west side and on top.

Local climate

Water Hydrant 10 Metres West of Number 39 (The Sherston Inn) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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