WaterPump, 126 Downshire Road, Holywood, Co Down is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
WaterPump, 126 Downshire Road, Holywood, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- grey-balcony-hazel
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 401 787
- Coordinates
- 54.63786, -5.83064
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This water pump, located at 126 Downshire Road, Holywood, Co Down, is a relatively recent addition as a garden ornament and is not a listed building. It is a cowtail closed head lever pump featuring a plain, spirally decorated column and a fluted cap topped with an acorn finial. The pump’s head is inscribed with ‘R Riddell NtnArds’. It was purchased second-hand for use as a garden ornament and installed in its current location between 2000 and 2019. For further information, see Fred Hammond’s 1997 report, ‘Water Pumps in Northern Ireland: A Preliminary Survey,’ where it is identified as Pump no 35.
Local climate
WaterPump, 126 Downshire Road, 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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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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