Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners
WELLHOUSE, WELL AND WELLHEAD GEAR NEXT WEST WALL OF BONNERS, WINDMILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101252
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners
- Statutory Address:
- WELLHOUSE, WELL AND WELLHEAD GEAR NEXT WEST WALL OF BONNERS, WINDMILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101252
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLHOUSE, WELL AND WELLHEAD GEAR NEXT WEST WALL OF BONNERS, WINDMILL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WELLHOUSE, WELL AND WELLHEAD GEAR NEXT WEST WALL OF BONNERS, WINDMILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07909 16706
Details
FLAMSTEAD WINDMILL ROAD TL 01 NE (North side) 2/63 Wellhouse, well, and - wellhead gear next W wall of Bonners
GV II
Wellhouse, well and wellhead gear. C18. Timber frame shed dark weatherboarded with pitched red tile roof and W gable end open. Oak and iron wellhead gear over 200ft deep well partly brick lined. A 2-bays, single-storey wellhouse shed next W wall of rear wing of Bonners (q.v.). Gear still useable. Iron crank on square-section iron shaft at E with large oak flywheel about 6ft diameter with 4 spokes on same spindle set between oak uprights framed to roof-purlin. 6-toothed iron cog drives a 48 toothed solid wooden wheel with hornbeam teeth fixed to the 4ft wide wooden winding drum. The rope which draws the bucket is led over on 18in diameter narrow wooden pulley, over the well, with 4 wooden arms to guide the rope to the pulley. Smaller diameter wooden brake wheel to W of flywheel with low brake bar pivotted to the oak uprights. (Branch Johnson (1970)94).
Listing NGR: TL0790916706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 94
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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