Parish Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Pump house.
Parish Pump House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cloister-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Pump house
- Address
- Parish Pump House, Rushbrooke with Rougham
- OS grid reference
- TL 892 615
- Coordinates
- 52.22008, 0.76843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Pump House is a small building that dates back to the 16th century, designed to enclose the parish pump. It is constructed of red brick and features an octagonal shape with panels that have a recessed pointed niche in each side, along with eight small three-tier buttresses. The building is topped with a conical roof that has a surrounding parapet. On the west side, there is a narrow doorway, and the interior is circular. Inside, there is a 19th-century pump.
Local climate
Parish Pump House 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 85% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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