Henlow Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 2003. A C19 Pump house.
Henlow Pump House
- WRENN ID
- moated-pinnacle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 2003
- Type
- Pump house
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 387
- Coordinates
- 52.03452, -0.2861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Henlow Pump House is a pump house built in 1897. It has a hexagonal plan and consists of six timber posts with curved braces that support a pyramidal six-sided hipped roof, which is tiled and capped with metal flashing, culminating in a decorative finial. The roof structure features a tie beam with a king post. There is a Portland stone horse trough that bears the inscription: 'This well was built by the people of Henlow / to commemorate the 60th year of / Queen Victoria's reign / open on the 29th date of September 1897'.
Historically, Henlow was connected to the mains water supply less than ten years after the pump house was constructed. The mechanical pump was removed in 1926, and the well was capped. This structure serves as a well-designed piece of village furniture located near the Grade I Church of St. Mary and commemorates the Diamond Jubilee.
Local climate
Henlow Pump House 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 88% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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