Well, Wellhead Gear and Wellhouse
WELL, WELLHEAD GEAR AND WELLHOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176692
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Well, Wellhead Gear and Wellhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WELL, WELLHEAD GEAR AND WELLHOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176692
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Well, Wellhead Gear and Wellhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL, WELLHEAD GEAR AND WELLHOUSE, THE GREEN
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, WELLHEAD GEAR AND WELLHOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18007 24739
Details
TL 1824 PRESTON THE GREEN (West side)
9/93 Well, wellhead gear, and wellhouse
GV II
Well, wellhead gear and wellhouse. 1872 provided by Darton family of Temple Dinsley when local ponds had dried up in a hot summer. Well said to be 226ft deep, now capped off. Octagonal wellhouse open at sides has steep pointed octagonal slate roof and 8 chamfered stout oak posts now raised on concrete pads from octagonal Yorkstone step. Cast iron gear arranged E-W over top of well. Rectangular openwork moulded iron trestle with battered ends, longitudinal bars at half height carrying lower axle, another near top with another axle and top member swept up in a segmental curve. Moulded braces sweep in to support lower bar and then intersect as cross-bracing to upper panel. 2 large 4ft diameter flywheels with handles one each end of lower axle. Cog of 15 teeth engages a gear of 96 teeth on upper axle also carrying flanged iron drawing pulley. A larger gear of 60 teeth on lower axle for unclear purpose. King-post roof in softwood. (Branch Johnson (1970)93: inf Mrs Nina Freebody).
Listing NGR: TL1800624744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 93
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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