Pump and Pumphouse in Market Place 40 Metres to North-North-West of St Peter's Church is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Pump and pumphouse.
Pump and Pumphouse in Market Place 40 Metres to North-North-West of St Peter's Church
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lintel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Pump and pumphouse
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 293
- Coordinates
- 51.94609, -0.01859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump and pumphouse, located in the Market Place 40 meters to the north-north-west of St Peter's Church, dates from the 18th or 19th century for the pump, while the pumphouse was built in 1897. The inscription on the pumphouse states, "SET UP BY/F J ROBINSON ESQRE/1897 TO COMMEMORATE/THE 60th YEAR OF THE/GLORIOUS REIGN OF/QUEEN/VICTORIA."
The structure features a wooden pump pillar made of oak, which is about one and a half meters high and encloses the pump barrel, with part of the crank mechanism still visible. The hexagonal pumphouse is supported by angled oak posts with braces connecting to the wallplate. It has a pointed hexagonal shingled roof that is designed in two stages. The inscription is carved in relief on all four sides of the pumphouse, and a wooden finial extends down, forming radial rafters.
Local climate
Pump and Pumphouse in Market Place 40 Metres to North-North-West of St Peter's Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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