PUMP IN MARKET PLACE

PUMP IN MARKET PLACE, MARKET PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321449
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: PUMP IN MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: PUMP IN MARKET PLACE, MARKET PLACE

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Date:: 2003-04-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321449
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: PUMP IN MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: PUMP IN MARKET PLACE, MARKET PLACE

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:: PUMP IN MARKET PLACE, MARKET PLACE

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ampthill
National Grid Reference:: TL0348538126

Details

1. 774 MARKET PLACE

Pump in Market Place TL 0338 1/11 17.7.51.

II

2. Stone obelisk on a vermiculated plinth, fitted respectively with iron handle and spout for use as the Town Pump. Iron socket at apex for a lamp (which survives only in design by Chambers in the collection of Mrs Shuttleworth of Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade). At the foot of the obelisk the distance to an important town in each direction is engraved on the appropriate face. Beneath these distances tile following inscription runs round the 4 faces: ERECTED BY/THE EARL OF/UPPER OSSORY/AD MDCCLXXXV. AM

Listing NGR: TL0348538126

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 37404
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.