West Somerton Marsh Draining Pump is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1952. Draining pump. 1 related planning application.
West Somerton Marsh Draining Pump
- WRENN ID
- idle-vault-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1952
- Type
- Draining pump
- Address
- West Somerton Marsh Draining Pump, Great Yarmouth
- OS grid reference
- TG 464 202
- Coordinates
- 52.72362, 1.64779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Somerton Marsh Draining Pump is a tower draining pump built in 1900 by Dan England. It features a tapering three-storey brick tower with a timber cap. The south side has a steel door set in a reduced segmental opening. There are semi-circular sluice openings on the south-west and north-east sides, which are now blocked with concrete. A casement window under a segmental arch is located on the south-west side at the first floor, and there is a similar window on the second storey to the north-east. The structure is topped with a weatherboarded boat-shaped cap and petticoat, and it retains intact fan cradle beams. There are two flat-topped dormers on the sides of the cap and two windows at the ends, all of which were added in the later 20th century. Inside, the machinery includes a cast iron crown spur wheel that drives an internal turbine pump.
Local climate
West Somerton Marsh Draining Pump receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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