CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827

CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827, PRIORY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308155
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827
Statutory Address:: CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827, PRIORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308155
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827
Statutory Address 1:: CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827, PRIORY LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CONDUIT HEAD AT PRIORY FARM 450 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF THE PRIORY AT NGR TL 2222 2827, PRIORY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Wymondley
National Grid Reference:: TL 22220 28270

Details

WYMONDLEY PRIORY LANE TL 22 NW (East side) Little Wymondley

4/155 Conduit Head at Priory Farm II 450M to NE of The Priory at NGR.TL 2222 2827

Conduit head. Medieval origin as water supply for Wymondley Priory, reconstructed C16 or early C17 by Nedham family after the Dissolution, rebuilt incorporating old work c.1902 by East Herts Archaeological Society. Flint rubble with uncoursed flint and pebble facing. C16 thin red brick in English-bond with wide joints up to springing of entrance arch on E end, moulded stone doorway, upper parts of walls in C19 plum red brick in English-bond. Unroofed. Tile floor recorded by VCH (1912, 189). A small rectangular building in a grove of ash trees. Plan in VCH shows a shallow basin inside with rounded end to E. Facing E there is a central clunch doorway, 3-centred arch in 2 orders, imposts, and stone jambs. Corbelled brick course projects over to protect head. Interior has low side walls and remains of W gable. Entrance has segmental rear arch and splayed jambs, and a round headed niche to each side. Remains of central W window with flanking niches, and triple recesses to each side-wall. The flow of water is said to have been formerly used to turn a spit in the farmhouse kitchen. The stone doorway is original but VCH suggests that the form of the rebuilding of c.1902 was based on another building elsewhere. Scheduled Ancient Monument, Herts No. 61c, described as 'well'. (RCHM (1911)149: VCH (1912)189).

Listing NGR: TL2222028270

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Legacy System number:: 162767
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 189
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

Legal

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