Windpump at Brickyard Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Windpump.
Windpump at Brickyard Farm
- WRENN ID
- tenth-chalk-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Windpump
- Address
- Windpump at Brickyard Farm, Wood Lane, Howden
- OS grid reference
- SE 752 309
- Coordinates
- 53.76973, -0.85957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The windpump at Brickyard Farm is a pumping mill that dates back to 1873, originally serving a former brick yard. It is constructed of brick in header bond, featuring a timber cap, sails, and fittings, along with cast-iron components. The tower tapers to a height of approximately 6 meters. There is a low round-arched doorway on the west side, and openings around 2.6 meters high for the timbers of the staging, some of which still protrude. Remnants of one pair of sails and a tail are mounted on a cast-iron ring bolted into the timber frame at the top of the brick tower. Inside, a central vertical pump rod and parts of the timber structure are still present. The timbers at the top of the tower are inscribed with 'F.L. + M.N. 73', indicating the year 1873 based on documentary evidence. This pump was used to drain the adjacent clay pipe and discharge water into a ditch several hundred yards away.
Local climate
Windpump at Brickyard Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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