Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage.
Pump Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-mortar-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pump Cottage, Gainsford End, Toppesfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 726 357
- Coordinates
- 51.99291, 0.51346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pump Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was extended in the 19th century. It has a timber frame and is plastered, with a thatched roof. The building consists of three bays aligned north to south, featuring an internal chimney stack located in the middle bay, facing west. There is a 19th-century lean-to extension at the rear and an external chimney stack at the north end. The cottage is single-storey with attics, has a plain door, and includes two 20th-century casement windows.
Local climate
Pump Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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