VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY

VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102237
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY
Statutory Address:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102237
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY
Statutory Address 1:: VILLAGE PUMP AND CANOPY, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.