Villagers Pump At Junction Of Village Street With Barton Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Village pump.
Villagers Pump At Junction Of Village Street With Barton Road
- WRENN ID
- guardian-grate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Village pump
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HEXTON HEXTON TL 1030 8/11 Villagers Pump at - junction of village street with Barton Road
GV II
Village pump with integral signpost (disused) and added lamp and direction indicating arms. On plate affixed above spout 'ERECTED/APRIL 1846/BY CAROLINE YOUNG/DE LAUTOUR/FOR THE USE OF/HEXTON/VILLAGERS'. On plate below the spout 'FREEMAN ROE/ENGINEERS/70 STRAND/LONDON'. Hexagonal platform with post at each corner probably c.1908, re-opened for use 1934, now disused. Pump and corner posts cast iron, painted white. Handle wrought iron. Blue brick bull-nosed edging to platform and steps on N. A tall octagonal Gothick iron pump with octagonal base-plate, high moulded base, moulded octagonal shaft, tapered octagonal finial supporting a small 4-armed cross-shaped signpost with a C20 street lantern fixed centrally on top. About 3M overall height. Direction arms fixed by straps at finial level. Panelled sides to pump with trefoil heads. On E face a large single spout with 2 rings and a bucket spur. Long S-shaped iron handle on N face with openwork thistle finial. (Branch Johnson (1970)168).
Listing NGR: TL1063030340
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