Pump Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage.

Pump Cottage

WRENN ID
dark-frieze-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Pump Cottage, West Orchard
OS grid reference
ST 823 171
Coordinates
50.95327, -2.25293
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pump Cottage is likely the remnant of a row of cottages, now functioning as a single house, and dates from the early 19th century. The building features whitewashed rubble walls and a gabled thatched roof, which has a brick stack at the right end and another stack slightly along the ridge on the left. It is two storeys tall with irregular window arrangements. The windows are casements that include horizontal glazing bars, and there is a 20th-century part-glazed door.

Local climate

Pump Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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