Pumphill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Pumphill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-ember-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pumphill Cottage, the Village, Brent Pelham, SG9 0HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 434 306
- Coordinates
- 51.95591, 0.08664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pumphill Cottage is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame, now plastered and clad in weatherboarding, and covered with a thatched roof. The cottage is single-storey with attics. It features casement windows with diamond leaded lights, a central front entrance with a brick porch, and an axial chimney stack with a gable chimney stack at the eastern end.
Local climate
Pumphill Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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