Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. A C17 Cottage.
Pump Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-hearth-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pump Cottage, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 689 259
- Coordinates
- 51.9063, 0.45529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pump Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior. The roof is thatched and half hipped to the right, featuring one gabled dormer. There is a red brick chimney stack on the right side. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a five-window range that includes diamond leaded casements or horizontal sliding sashes, all topped with pentice boards. There is an off-centre tusk tenon and a vertically boarded door located on the left return. It is reputed that the cottage was used as a Quaker Meeting House at one time.
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 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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