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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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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Date:: 2006-04-26
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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 159497
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 93
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 73

Legal

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