Pump at Chalk Cottage 4 Metres North of Door is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Pump.
Pump at Chalk Cottage 4 Metres North of Door
- WRENN ID
- noble-brick-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Pump
- OS grid reference
- TL 443 226
- Coordinates
- 51.88357, 0.09523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump at Chalk Cottage, located 4 metres north of the door, dates from the 18th or 19th century. It features an iron mechanism mounted on the west side of paired wooden uprights. The pump has a cast iron barrel and a long S-shaped wrought iron handle with a counterweight terminal. This pump is of social and technical interest.
Local climate
Pump at Chalk Cottage 4 Metres North of Door sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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