Wall incorporating C18 water supply point and a circa 1800 lamp standard

Wall incorporating a former public water supply of circa 1782 and a street lamp of circa 1800.

MATERIALS: walling of local limestone with a dressed stone pilaster and coping. Lamp standard of wrought iron.

DESCRIPTION: the wall is of roughly coursed rubble to the east face and well-coursed, squared stone to the west. The wall top follows the slope of the hill with a horizontal step around midway. This is marked on the west face with a monolithic pilaster with a simple base and cornice above which rises the lamp standard that is fixed to the wall coping. Towards the base of the pilaster there are marks left for the fittings associated with the water supply, including a blocked hole that formerly held the water pipe. Below this is an inscribed Ordnance Survey bench mark.

The wrought iron lamp standard is in the form of a vertical bar supported on four sides with relatively simple, but decorative scrolled ironwork. The lantern has been lost, but the lantern base plate, a projecting ladder rest and a section of gas pipe all remain in situ.