VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building

Grade:: II

List Entry Number:: 1102237

Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984

Statutory Address:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY, HIGH STREET

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Location

Statutory Address:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY, 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:: Westmill

National Grid Reference:: TL 36834 27077

Details

Westmill village TL 3627 WESTMILL HIGH STREET (north side)

8/7 Village Pump and Canopy

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GV II

Pump and canopy. About 1900, restored 1975. Cylindrical and domed oak to pump mechanism with fluted and spurred cast bronze spout enclosure and acorn finial. Oak hexagonal canopy on 6 posts with shingled roof in 2 stages with carved finial. Arts and Crafts Style carved decoration to tapering cylindrical casing with double chamfered base, vertical fluted and moulded sections, moulded capital and domed top carved with overlapping pointed leaves. Inscribed around capital 'TRAVERSE THE DESERT AND THEN YOU CAN TELL WHAT TREASURE EXISTS IN THE COOL DEEP WELL'. Pentagonal oak posts with curved braces to wall plate and brackets supporting boarded soffit. Centre piece of picturesque village green.

Listing NGR: TL3683427077

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 161358

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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