Description

EAST HARDWICK DARRINGTON ROAD SE41NE (south side) 7/31 Village Pump 6.2.69 - II Village pump. Probably C19; restored, and shelter added, in early C20. Pump of lead and iron with wooden cladding; timber-framed shelter with red tiled roof. The pump is surrounded by wooden cladding, approx. 1 1/2 metres high, a drooping lead spout on the north side and an iron handle on the west side; and there is a sandstone slab beneath the spout, with rounded front and worn surface. The shelter is rectangular, and open-sided, with 4 timber corner posts and wavy braces to horizontal beams at the eaves, and a steeply-pitched hipped roof of fishscale tiles, swept over the eaves, and with cresting to the short ridge. The sides of the beams have incised decoration and lettering in Gothic script running round the whole from the north side:- "0 Ye Wells Bless Ye The Lord Praise Him And Magnify Him For Ever"

Listing NGR: SE4612218471

External Links

• Wikidata Q26577972

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)