Pump, Opposite the Bear Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Pump.

Pump, Opposite the Bear Hotel

WRENN ID
white-wall-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Pump
Address
Pump, Opposite the Bear Hotel, High Street, KT10 9RQ
OS grid reference
TQ 138 646
Coordinates
51.36933, -0.36537
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a cast iron pump located opposite the Bear Hotel in Esher, built in 1864. It stands approximately 6 feet tall on a square base, featuring an octagonal plinth and an octagonal pump shaft. The shaft is adorned with traceried panels on each side and topped with an ogee dome. The water spout is positioned on the west face, with a pump handle at the rear, which has palmette moulding at the end. The pump was originally situated in Sandown Park and was erected to commemorate the marriage of the Comte de Paris to H.R.H. Infanta Maria Isabella on May 30, 1864.

Local climate

Pump, Opposite the Bear Hotel 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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