Pump In front of Ballydown School, Castlewellan Road, Banbridge, Co. Down is a listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Pump In front of Ballydown School, Castlewellan Road, Banbridge, Co. Down
- WRENN ID
- plain-corridor-dock
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 149 453
- Coordinates
- 54.34353, -6.23267
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a rotary water pump, likely dating from between 1920 and 1939. It is of industrial archaeological interest. The pump features a plain, undecorated column composed of three bolted sections, with a flywheel on either side of the axle. Embossed around the top of the column is the inscription "H.J.Godwin Ltd/Ovenington/Glos/England". Originally used to pump water into a cistern within the school, it was probably installed when the school opened in 1939 and superseded by mains water in the 1950s or 1960s. The pump has been relocated from its original position within the school grounds to a prominent position in front of the new school building. Further details are contained in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland: a Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997.
Local climate
Pump In front of Ballydown School, Castlewellan Road, Banbridge, Co. Down receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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 0.2°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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