Pump outside Weighbridge House, Main Street, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone is a Grade B2 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 29 December 2006.
Pump outside Weighbridge House, Main Street, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone
- WRENN ID
- hollow-barrel-finch
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 29 December 2006
- Irish grid reference
- H 569 679
- Coordinates
- 54.55651, -7.11979
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is one of a group of public water fountains in Sixmilecross, serving as a reminder of a time when the only readily available drinking water came from public sources. The pump, dating from between 1900 and 1919, features a plain, shaped, and fluted column topped with an acorn finial and a lion's mouth spout. The column is inscribed with the name "Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock." Water troughs were marked along the street on Ordnance Survey maps from 1906 and 1937, though the pumps themselves are not explicitly noted on those maps. This pump is of industrial archaeological interest and contributes to the group value of the surrounding area. Further details can be found in the Environment Heritage Service report "Water Pumps in Northern Ireland: A Preliminary Survey" by Fred Hammond, dated January 1997.
Local climate
Pump outside Weighbridge House, Main Street, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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