Village Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. Pump.
Village Pump
- WRENN ID
- watchful-chancel-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1983
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Village Pump, the Street, Swannington
- OS grid reference
- TG 134 190
- Coordinates
- 52.7269, 1.15925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Pump is a covered pump dated 1888, constructed of timber with a thatched roof. It has a square plan, featuring oak posts at each corner that are supported by arch braces to the plates. The timber dado includes a gate leading to the road, adorned with cast iron dog-tooth ornamentation. The roof is hipped and thatched, topped with a weather vane. Inside, there is a centrally placed pump set into a tiled floor. The pump is made of cast iron and is attached to a timber column, which is flanked by angle quarter round columns with bases and capitals, and topped with a pyramidal finial. There are also attached commemorative plaques, and the gun metal spout discharges into a stone bowl.
Local climate
Village Pump sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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