Village Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1969. Village pump.
Village Pump
- WRENN ID
- deep-keep-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1969
- Type
- Village pump
- Address
- Village Pump, Darrington Road, East Hardwick
- OS grid reference
- SE 461 184
- Coordinates
- 53.66072, -1.30354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village pump, likely from the 19th century, has been restored with a shelter added in the early 20th century. The pump itself is made of lead and iron and features wooden cladding. It stands about 1.5 meters high and has a drooping lead spout on the north side, along with an iron handle on the west side. Beneath the spout is a sandstone slab with a rounded front and a worn surface.
The shelter is rectangular and open-sided, supported by four timber corner posts. It has wavy braces connecting the horizontal beams at the eaves and a steeply-pitched hipped roof covered in fishscale tiles that extend over the eaves, complete with cresting along the short ridge. The sides of the beams are decorated with incised designs and Gothic script that reads: "O Ye Wells Bless Ye The Lord Praise Him And Magnify Him For Ever."
Local climate
Village Pump receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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 0.3°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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