Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631343

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]