Village Pumphouse and Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Pumphouse, clock tower. 1 related planning application.
Village Pumphouse and Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- noble-ledge-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Pumphouse, clock tower
- Address
- Village Pumphouse and Clock Tower, Heath Green, Heath and Reach, LU7 0AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 925 280
- Coordinates
- 51.94307, -0.65546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village pumphouse and clock tower, built in 1873, is a single-storey brick structure with a gable end. The sides feature cambered headed archways filled with iron railings. The tile roof covers the building, and one gable end has a plain door with a cambered arch. At the opposite end, a two-stage square brick turret rises above the roof, which includes a clock dial and is topped with a louvred belfry. The turret has a pyramid roof and a vane with cardinal points. Inside, there is iron pumping machinery. This building is a prominent feature of the village green.
Local climate
Village Pumphouse and Clock Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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