Pump in Forecourt of Marchants is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Pump.

Pump in Forecourt of Marchants

WRENN ID
ancient-truss-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Pump
Address
Pump in Forecourt of Marchants, the Street, Rayne
OS grid reference
TL 729 226
Coordinates
51.87556, 0.51138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump in the forecourt of Marchants is a cast iron structure from the 19th century. It features a moulded foliate cap topped with an acorn finial, a moulded spout, and a bucket hook. The pump has a ball handle and is enclosed in a weatherboarded casing.

Local climate

Pump in Forecourt of Marchants 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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