Pump on Road Island at Junction with Covey's Lane is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Pump.
Pump on Road Island at Junction with Covey's Lane
- WRENN ID
- woven-grate-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Pump on Road Island at Junction with Covey's Lane, Gangies Hill Road, High Wych
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 153
- Coordinates
- 51.81802, 0.11029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pump located on a road island at the junction with Covey's Lane, dating from the 18th or 19th century. It is made of cast iron and features a circular barrel with two raised rings. The pump has a corbelled moulded expansion leading to the chamber and a top flange. It is topped with a fluted cap that has an acorn finial. On the east side, there is a single tapered spout with a bucket spur, and on the north side, there is a curved wrought iron handle. This roadside public pump holds social and technological significance.
Local climate
Pump on Road Island at Junction with Covey's Lane 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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