The Old Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Pump house.
The Old Pump House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-vestry-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Pump house
- Address
- The Old Pump House, Nether Compton
- OS grid reference
- ST 597 173
- Coordinates
- 50.95413, -2.57424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Pump House is a pump house built in the late 19th century. It features rock-faced masonry walls and a gabled stone slate roof. The entrance has straight jambs and a pointed-segmental head made with rock-faced voussoirs.
Local climate
The Old Pump House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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