Pump in Courtyard of Sawston Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Pump.

Pump in Courtyard of Sawston Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1986
Type
Pump
Address
Pump in Courtyard of Sawston Hall, Church Lane
OS grid reference
TL 488 491
Coordinates
52.12037, 0.17267
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump located in the courtyard of Sawston Hall is a long case pump from the 18th century. It features a lead cistern and pipe, although the original wooden casing is no longer present. The cistern has a decorated front panel and a spout. It is positioned against the wall of a late 16th-century stair turret.

Local climate

Pump in Courtyard of Sawston Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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