Well House 2 Metres North Of Bury Lodge

SU 61 SW HAMBLEDON 10/24 Well House 2 metres north of Bury Lodge GV II Wellhead, and apparatus for raising (barrels of) water. Early C19. A square brick pavilion with arched openings in the centre of each side (the south-west corner being chamfered). In the centre of the brick floor is a boarded hatch. Within the structure there is timber framework which supports the mechanism, comprising a high-level axle (with rope) connected to a wheel with dowel cogs set between wide flanges. In line with this wheel, and connected to a separate frame- work, is a smaller 'cogged' wheel linked by an axle to a lightly-framed large wheel having fixed near its rim a wrought-iron handle, and controlled by a long brake lever. At the other side there is a lead-lined trough with an indented side (to accommodate the tipped water barrel), the trough slopes and narrows, to pass through a hole in the east wall. The alignment of the 'cogged' wheels suggest that an intermediate gear wheel is missing, or that there was some form of belt drive between them.

Listing NGR: SU6538416689