The Village Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Pump.
The Village Pump
- WRENN ID
- hushed-gable-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- The Village Pump, Horton Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 031 074
- Coordinates
- 50.8667, -1.95695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Pump is a pump shelter built in 1901. It features an open structure made of timber frame construction, with vertical uprights and diagonal bracing supporting the roof. The roof is concave pyramidal in shape, covered with tiles and topped with a lead finial. Inside, there is a cast iron pump housed in a timber casing.
Local climate
The Village Pump receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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