Well-head and Shelter About 50 Metres West-south-west of Pressland House
WELL-HEAD AND SHELTER ABOUT 50 METRES WEST-SOUTH-WEST OF PRESSLAND HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105280
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Well-head and Shelter About 50 Metres West-south-west of Pressland House
- Statutory Address:
- WELL-HEAD AND SHELTER ABOUT 50 METRES WEST-SOUTH-WEST OF PRESSLAND HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105280
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Well-head and Shelter About 50 Metres West-south-west of Pressland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL-HEAD AND SHELTER ABOUT 50 METRES WEST-SOUTH-WEST OF PRESSLAND HOUSE
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:
- WELL-HEAD AND SHELTER ABOUT 50 METRES WEST-SOUTH-WEST OF PRESSLAND HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatherleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55309 02161
Details
HATHERLEIGH SS50SE Well-head and Shelter 7/250 about 50 metres west- south-west of Pressland House - II Well-head and shelter. The well is 1889, the shelter 1897. The shelter over the well is built of timber with a fishscale red clay tile roof. Situated on the roadside the shelter is octagonal on plan and open-sided with 8 polygonal timber posts and shaped braces with fleur-de-lys cusping supporting the moulded wall- -plate. The octagonally hipped roof has a wrought-iron finial at the apex with leaf decoration and a small pennant which may be a weathervane. Carved into the wall-plate is the inscription:- "This water supply and seat was erected by S. H. Andrews October 1889 and this shelter by his widow June 1887". The seat under the shelter is missing but the pump and trough survive. The trough is a circular granite monolith, like a cider-apple crusher, from the centre of which is the iron pump in octagonal wooden casing; the pump handle is missing. The underside of the roof is boarded.
Listing NGR: SS5530902161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93132
- 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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