The Village Pump at Sw609311 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Village pump.

The Village Pump at Sw609311

WRENN ID
gaunt-window-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Village pump
Address
The Village Pump at Sw609311, Breage
OS grid reference
SW 609 311
Coordinates
50.13177, -5.34652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The village pump housing, dating from around the mid-19th century, is constructed of random rubble with granite dressings. Although the former iron pump is no longer present, the structure features a high wall that creates a leat, allowing water to be pumped from a sump. On the upstream side of the wall, which faces north, there is a spout and a bucket niche, along with another niche higher up where the pump used to be installed. The side bank of the leat is lined with granite moorstone copings that serve as a path, and a wide slab lintel bridges the leat next to the wall. This arrangement for collecting water is quite unusual and remains largely intact, aside from the missing ironwork.

Local climate

The Village Pump at Sw609311 receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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