Village Pump and Surrounding Railing is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Pump. 2 related planning applications.
Village Pump and Surrounding Railing
- WRENN ID
- dusk-railing-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Village Pump and Surrounding Railing, High Street, Hunsdon, SG12 8NZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 418 141
- Coordinates
- 51.80795, 0.05547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 19th-century village pump and surrounding railing stand in Hunsdon High Street, within the village's Conservation Area. The pump was made by 'Turner, Dorset Street, Fleet Street, London', as indicated by a pedimented raised plate on the base. It is a cast iron public pump facing west, approximately 2 metres high. The structure takes the form of a stepped octagonal pier with a plinth and moulded base. It features a lower section with a heavily modelled animal-headed spout and foliate collar, above which is a taller section with lancet sunk panels and sunk spandrels. A moulded cornice sits above, topped with an ogee cap. An S-shaped cast iron handle, with an oval terminal and projecting horns, is located on the south side. The surrounding railing is largely contemporary, though now much reduced in extent; it is made of cast iron with fluted uprights and spearheads. It is a fine architectural public pump in the Gothic style.
Local climate
Village Pump and Surrounding Railing sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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