Old Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1974. House.
Old Pump Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-bronze-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Pump Cottage, 8/10, Chapel Road, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 220
- Coordinates
- 51.88544, -0.32979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Pump Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th century, reportedly dated 1787. It features a timber frame with roughcast and a red brick ground floor in Flemish bond. The building has a steep old red tile roof that extends down at the rear over an outshut. The house is two storeys high with a three-cell internal chimney plan, facing east and set back from the road. There is a large internal chimney located a third of the way from the south end, along with a later small external chimney on the north gable. The east front has three three-light divided casement windows on each floor and two four-panel doors. Inside, the cottage has exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Old Pump Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings