The Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1981. A C17 Cottage.
The Pump House
- WRENN ID
- burning-footing-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pump House, Finchingfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 702 300
- Coordinates
- 51.94326, 0.47544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pump House is a pair of cottages, now combined into one house, dating from the 17th century and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plaster and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building has five bays facing southwest, with a central stack. On the left end, there is a lean-to garage that is weatherboarded and has a corrugated iron roof. A large extension was added to the rear in 1982, which is also weatherboarded and tiled. The house is one storey with attics and includes two 20th-century casement windows and one 20th-century bay window. There are three 20th-century casements in gabled dormers and a 20th-century gabled porch with a door on the left. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, there is some heavy studding, chamfered axial beams, and two large wood-burning hearths.
Local climate
The Pump House 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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