Trow Pump And Pump House At Ngr Sy 15589N

TROW 1. 1663 Trow Pump and Pump House at NGR SY 15589N SY 18 NE 15/308 II 2. Pump house and pump. Dated 'In memory of John R A Morshead Twenty Seven years Vicar of Salcombe Regis 1884': A flint structure with brick dressings, and double roman tile roof to gables, that to front with decorative bargeboard. A small square building, set into a field bank on the corner of the Seaton to Salcombe Road and a field track, plain opening with segmental pointed arch and a spear-head iron gate about 1.75m high and 900mm wide. Inside, a stone floor and a fine reciprocating pump in cast iron with brass cogs; the pump in the form of a short column with base and palmette cap; and winding wheel to right. Inset tablet with original date, as above, and a second tablet 'Renovated by the Sid. Vale Assn 1968-1983' - the dates ailed in a temporary panel. The pump was used until 1915. It is notable that the Sid Vale Association, founded in 1846, is the oldest Amenity Group in Britain. (Sidmouth Herald, 2.xii.67; article by R E Wilson).

Listing NGR: SY1539489373