The Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House.
The Pump House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-plinth-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Pump House, Newsells, Barkway
- OS grid reference
- TL 385 373
- Coordinates
- 52.01745, 0.01748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pump House is a house that was once three separate dwellings, dating from the 17th century and extended in the 19th century. It has a timber frame on a brick base, with a rendered exterior and a steeply pitched thatched roof. Originally likely consisting of three cells, it now features four windows across its front. The building is two storeys high, with a simple architrave at the entrance located between the right-hand bays, while the entrance to the left is blocked. The ground floor has three-light flush frame small pane casements with hoodboards. There is an external stack with offsets at the right end, which has been partially rebuilt, and a central ridge stack made of 18th and 19th-century brick. The left gable end has a higher brick base, an internal stack, and exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there are two and three-light casements, glazed doors, and an added stack. The left end features a small outshut with a slate roof. Additionally, there is a two-storey wing at the rear right, which has an entrance on the outer elevation, a decoratively tiled roof, and an extruded end stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Pump House 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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