Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage
Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage, Claycastle, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, TA18 7PB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1438319
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage, Claycastle, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, TA18 7PB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1438319
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage, Claycastle, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, TA18 7PB
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:
- Water hydrant outside Conigar Cottage, Claycastle, Haselbury Plucknett, Crewkerne, TA18 7PB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haselbury Plucknett
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4731710729
Summary
A water hydrant, cast by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock, dating from the late C19 or early C20.
Reasons for Designation
The late-C19 or early-C20 lion-head hydrant outside Conigar Cottage is listed, for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: a well-cast, highly decorative example of a street hydrant, surviving intact;
* Historic interest: evidence of the philanthropic provision of a safe, clean water supply for the inhabitants of the village before municipal piped water;
* Group value: with the other six lion-head hydrants around the village.
History
This hydrant, one of a group of similar hydrants in Haselbury Plucknett, was installed in the later C19 or early C20 by Lord Portman of Orchard Portman, lord of the manor, as Haselbury Plucknett did not have a public water supply until 1936. After this the hydrants went out of use, but continue to form part of the street scene.
Details
A water hydrant, cast by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock, dating from the late C19 or early C20.
MATERIALS
Cast iron.
DESCRIPTION
The hydrant has a fluted pillar on a plinth, with a band to the head, under a fluted domical cap with a bud finial. A lion head is cast into one side, and four spouts with keyed stoppers are set in the band.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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