Pump on Roadside Outside No 4 New 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 Outside No 4 New Cottages

WRENN ID
south-bronze-crag
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 Outside No 4 New Cottages, Hexton
OS grid reference
TL 107 308
Coordinates
51.96535, -0.38985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump, located on the roadside outside No. 4 New Cottages in Hexton, was erected around 1908 for G.H. Hodgson, the lord of the manor, during the culverting of the nearby stream. It remained in use until the 1940s. This cast iron pump stands approximately 1.5 meters high and features a cylindrical shaft adorned with raised rings. The shaft leads to a wider cylindrical fluted barrel with a large spurred spout facing west. On the south side, there is a long S-shaped cast iron handle, and the pump is topped with a fluted domed cap that has a finial. Originally, a pump was provided for each pair of cottages, and several of these pumps still exist.

Local climate

Pump on Roadside Outside No 4 New 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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