Village Pump and Wellhouse (On Green 90 Metres to North of Church)
VILLAGE PUMP AND WELLHOUSE (ON GREEN 90 METRES TO NORTH OF CHURCH), ARDELEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347924
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Village Pump and Wellhouse (On Green 90 Metres to North of Church)
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND WELLHOUSE (ON GREEN 90 METRES TO NORTH OF CHURCH), ARDELEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347924
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Village Pump and Wellhouse (On Green 90 Metres to North of Church)
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND WELLHOUSE (ON GREEN 90 METRES TO NORTH OF CHURCH), ARDELEY
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:
- VILLAGE PUMP AND WELLHOUSE (ON GREEN 90 METRES TO NORTH OF CHURCH), ARDELEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ardeley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3080027227
Details
TL 3027
ARDELEY
9/4
ARDELEY
(north side)
Village Pump and
Wellhouse
(on green 90m to N
of church)
GV
II
Pump and wellhouse. Circa 1917 by F C Eden for John Howard
Carter of The Bury. Cast iron pump with large flywheel. Red
brick wellhouse with plastered panels and hexagonal old red tile
cap with gilded vane and bellcast eaves. Pump has 2 iron
openwork trestles supporting a single-throw crank with iron gear.
Wooden handle to 4 foot diameter flywheel with 6 straight oval-
section spokes. Axle mounted to LH side with pivot of heavy pump
counterweight at lower level under. Parallel motion linked to
opposite side of trestle. Hexhagonal tall wellhouse with open
lower stage on brick piers with oak beams between, supporting a
panelled short upper stage with corbelled eaves. Pairs of piers
linked by brick benches with oak seats on 3 sides. Pebble and red
tile paving. Interior has relieving arches to beams and central
roof post carried on 3 intersecting cross-beams. Centrepiece of
picturesque Blaise Hamlet type scheme at The Green. (Branch
Johnson (1970) 93: Pevsner (1977) 73).
Listing NGR: TL3080027227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 73
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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