Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. Cottage.
Pump Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-granite-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pump Cottage, Boxford
- OS grid reference
- SU 426 713
- Coordinates
- 51.43982, -1.38833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pump Cottage is a 17th-century cottage constructed of brick and timber framing with brick nogging. It features a half-hipped thatched roof with a central chimney stack and is one storey high with an attic. The roof is designed to sweep up over the attic windows. The entrance is a lobby type, with two central doors and a 20th-century porch to the left. There are scattered casement windows on both the right and left sides of the cottage on both storeys. Additionally, there is a later one-storey addition to the left.
Local climate
Pump Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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