Pump House Approximately 25 Metres South East of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Pump house.
Pump House Approximately 25 Metres South East of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place
- WRENN ID
- bitter-oriel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Pump house
- OS grid reference
- TQ 646 490
- Coordinates
- 51.21667, 0.35596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump house, built around 1886 to 1888, is located approximately 25 meters south-east of The Old Farmhouse at Style Place. It is constructed of brick, featuring an irregular mixture of red and ochre-yellow bricks that are used intentionally on the cornices and window heads. The structure is square in plan and resembles a tower.
On the south-west side, there is a round-headed opening that is boarded, while the other three sides have small openings at ground level. At the top, there is a corbelled brick cornice above a course of dentils. Above this, the brickwork tapers to a narrow shaft that houses a water tank. The pump was used for a nearby artesian well, which, according to the owner, was the first tube-bored artesian well in Kent, reaching approximately 860 feet down to the Thames aquifer. It was originally dug to serve Simmons Brewery located at Style Place and is said to have supplied water to a glassworks. The pump house is part of a remarkably complete group of listed brewery buildings surrounding Style Place Farmhouse.
Local climate
Pump House Approximately 25 Metres South East of the Old Farmhouse, Style Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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