Village Pump And Wellhouse (On Green 90 Metres To North Of Church)

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