Pump on Roadside Opposite Dairy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Pump.

Pump on Roadside Opposite Dairy Cottages

WRENN ID
carved-brass-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
Pump
Address
Pump on Roadside Opposite Dairy Cottages, Hexton
OS grid reference
TL 106 305
Coordinates
51.96275, -0.39081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a cast iron pump located on the roadside opposite Dairy Cottages in Hexton. It was built around 1908 for G. H. Hodgson, who was the lord of the manor, and it remained in use until the 1940s. In front of the pump, there is a flat stone.

Local climate

Pump on Roadside Opposite Dairy Cottages 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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