Village Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A 19th century Water pump. 2 related planning applications.
Village Pump
- WRENN ID
- dark-joist-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Water pump
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Village Pump, the Street, Smarden, TN27 8NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 881 423
- Coordinates
- 51.14945, 0.68818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village pump in Smarden, located on the south side of The Street, features a lead waterspout dated 1897. It has an iron pump handle and a stone receptacle below. The pump is sheltered by a modern wooden structure.
Local climate
Village Pump 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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