The Pump House, Friars Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Engine house.

The Pump House, Friars Mill

WRENN ID
blind-sentry-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leicester
Constituency
Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1986
Type
Engine house
Address
The Pump House, Friars Mill, 98, Bath Lane, City of Leicester, LE3 5BJ
OS grid reference
SK 579 046
Coordinates
52.63616, -1.14449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pump House at Friars Mill is a mid to late 19th-century steam engine house constructed of brick. It stands two storeys tall with a pitched tile roof that rises to form a small pyramid at the north end. A tapering brick stack is located at the southeast corner of the building. The structure features three bays, each containing a pair of windows; the first-floor windows have segmental heads while the ground-floor windows are round-arched. This building is also known as the Sarah Engine House, reportedly named after the wife of the mill owner, A.R. Donisthorpe, who purchased the property in 1866. However, it is worth noting that the adjacent street was called Sarah Street as early as 1828.

Local climate

The Pump House, Friars Mill receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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