Water Pump, Former Coastguard Cottages, North Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim is a Grade B2 listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 29 December 2006.

Water Pump, Former Coastguard Cottages, North Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim

WRENN ID
brooding-frieze-brook
Grade
B2
Local Planning Authority
Causeway Coast and Glens
Constituency
North Antrim MP: Jim Allister (TUV)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
29 December 2006
Irish grid reference
D 118 413
Coordinates
55.20673, -6.24312
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A cast iron water pump with handle, manufactured by D Dell & Co. Belfast, dating from the late 19th century. The top part of the pump casing is missing. The pump features an unusual pointed detail at the top of its handle. It stands in the forecourt area between the terrace of listed coastguard cottages and their outbuildings, positioned next to the yard wall directly opposite cottage number 4.

The pump has group value with the adjacent former Coastguard Cottages, a 2-storey terrace erected in 1868 comprising a cottage for the commanding officer and 6 cottages for ranks, together with an off-centre tower and small outhouses. The tower is flat roofed with a high parapet wall, while the cottage roofs are slated with hips. The terrace is reached by a laneway from North Street and stands within its own grounds, though these have been much reduced by later development. Opposite each residential unit is a small enclosed yard with a lean-to roofed store.

The cottages were built as part of a Coast Guard Station, probably designed by E.T. Owen, assistant architect in the Irish Board of Public Works in Dublin, under the direction of the board's principal architect, his brother J.H. Owen. E.T. Owen appears to have taken over responsibility for the design of coastguard stations from J.H. Owen in the mid-1860s. The original station comprised five houses and a tower. The coastguard station vacated the site around the 1960s, and the buildings subsequently reverted to the Trustees of the Fullerton Estate.

A previous coastguard station had existed closer to the sea, adjacent to the pier, before this location was established. The coastguard station first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1904; the earlier map of 1855 shows the earlier station, and historical records from the 1830s describe the residences of the officers of that station as "without anything in their architecture or appearance worthy of description".

The pump is of industrial archaeological interest and is recorded as derelict.

Local climate

Water Pump, Former Coastguard Cottages, North Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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