Village Pump and Pump Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1979. Pump.
Village Pump and Pump Shelter
- WRENN ID
- frozen-floor-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1979
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Village Pump and Pump Shelter, Belvoir
- OS grid reference
- SK 824 312
- Coordinates
- 52.87251, -0.7761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village pump and pump shelter in Knipton is a mid-19th century water pump made of ironstone. It features a square section lever housing with chamfered corners, which stands on a rectangular plinth that also supports a rounded water bowl. The top of the lever housing has a plain cornice that ends in a ball finial. The gabled timber shelter is supported by square section posts and has a roof covered with wooden shingles.
Local climate
Village Pump and Pump Shelter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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