Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
Pump Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-copper-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pump Cottage, 18, Caxton End, Eltisley
- OS grid reference
- TL 272 595
- Coordinates
- 52.21938, -0.1389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pump Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is timber-framed and covered with painted brick, featuring a long straw thatched roof. The building has one storey and an attic, arranged in a three-unit plan. There is a red brick ridge stack, one 20th-century casement window, and one horizontal sliding sash window, along with a boarded door located in the gable that faces the street.
Local climate
Pump Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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