Village Pump and Surrounding Railing
VILLAGE PUMP AND SURROUNDING RAILING, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101980
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Village Pump and Surrounding Railing
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND SURROUNDING RAILING, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101980
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Village Pump and Surrounding Railing
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND SURROUNDING RAILING, HIGH STREET
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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:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND SURROUNDING RAILING, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41804 14143
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (east side) Hunsdon village
7/11 Village Pump and Surrounding - Railing
GV II
Village pump and railings. Early C19 by 'Turner, Dorset Street, Fleet Street, London' (pedimented raised plate on base). Cast iron public pump facing W. About 2 metres high in the form of a stepped octagonal pier with plinth, moulded base, a lower section with a heavily modelled animal headed spout with foliate collar, a taller upper section with lancet sunk panels with sunk spandrels, a moulded cornice and ogee cap. S-shaped cast iron handle on S side has oval terminal with projecting horns. Cast iron railing around contemporary but much reduced in extent. Fluted uprights and spearheads. A fine architectural public pump in the Gothic style. At the centre of the village street in the middle of the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4180414143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159972
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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