Pump outside 8 Seapark Avenue, Holywood, Co. Down is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Pump outside 8 Seapark Avenue, Holywood, Co. Down
- WRENN ID
- standing-baluster-rain
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 402 796
- Coordinates
- 54.64584, -5.82752
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a lever pump, likely constructed between 1920 and 1939. It is located within a roadside walled niche in a housing development in Holywood, County Down. The pump features a plain-shaped column decorated with spiral incised detailing. Inscribed around the top of the column are the words 'McCleave Holywood'. Originally fitted with a cow-tailed handle, it now has a plain tubing replacement, and the original cap has been replaced by a hinged piece of flat metal. The pump has lost its original handle and top, but remains a significant reminder of a time when drinking water was sourced from public supplies. A house and alcove designed to accommodate the pump appear on a 1931 Ordnance Survey map (reference PRONI OS 10/3/1/9/2), although the pump itself is not labelled until a later 1938 map revision. Further information can be found in the Environment Heritage Service report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammons, January 1997, Pump No 45. Although not formally listed, the pump is considered to have industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Pump outside 8 Seapark Avenue, Holywood, Co. Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No sale records on file
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