Pump Inside the Outer Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Pump, castle feature.

Pump Inside the Outer Gatehouse

WRENN ID
keen-lead-magpie
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1974
Type
Pump, castle feature
Address
Pump Inside the Outer Gatehouse, Castlegate, Cockermouth
OS grid reference
NY 122 308
Coordinates
54.6653, -3.3618
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pump inside the Outer Gatehouse at Cockermouth Castle is a Grade I listed structure. It features a square stone pier with chamfered panelled corners and a curved capping. The pump has an iron curved handle and a wooden pipe, along with a stone trough that is square with a circular basin. The inhabited parts of Cockermouth Castle are considered a group with the uninhabited parts.

Local climate

Pump Inside the Outer Gatehouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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