Pump
PUMP, KELMARSH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392060
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Pump
- Statutory Address:
- PUMP, KELMARSH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392060
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Pump
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUMP, KELMARSH ROAD
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:
- PUMP, KELMARSH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clipston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 71420 81409
Details
CLIPSTON
462/0/10004 KELMARSH ROAD 20-JUN-07 Pump
II Water pump; late C19. It has a lead and wrought iron spout and wrought iron handle, and is enclosed within wooden casing. At the top of the casing, above the spout is a metal sign which reads 'Brixworth Rural district Council. Water from this source must be boiled before being used for domestic purposes. C.T. Darwent Medical Officer of Health'.
HISTORY. Pumps appeared in towns and villages in increasing numbers throughout the C18 and C19, and remained a source of water for domestic use into the C20. The 1886 OS map of Clipston identifies at least 16 pumps, most of which were evidently in private ownership, although several are located by the side of the road. There is no pump shown on Kelmarsh Road, but there is a well where the pump is now, and it does appear on the 1900 OS map.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE. Complete examples of pumps from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries may be eligible for designation, when they survive in reasonable condition. The pump on Kelmarsh Road is a rare example of a complete C19 water pump. It is an important part of the village scene, an illustration of the social history of England, and of how domestic life was managed before the availability of piped water: it meets the criteria for listing.
SOURCES. A Potted History of Village Pumps Website: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pumps/history.htm
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494215
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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