Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4680
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/1966
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
The Village Pump
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanuwchllyn
Town
Locality
Llanuwchllyn
Easting
287335
Northing
330343
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road to the L on entering the village; raised up slightly on a square plinth of limestone setts.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Erected in 1891. Inscription recording its erection to commemorate the birth of one of the Williams-Wynns of Wynnstay on the 25th January, 1891.
Exterior
Tall cast iron water pump in the form of a gate pier. The pump is square in section and stands to a height of approximately 2.2m. Vertical sunk-panels to the sides, with egg-and-dart decoration; on a moulded plinth. Further egg-and-dart and acanthus frieze with moulded cornice above. The pump has a shallow ogee capping section with surmounting foliated finial. The front has a centrally-placed spout with a simple square catch trough below. Above the spout is affixed a cartouche with, in raised lettering: 'Cofeb y cyhoedd am Enedigaeth Etifedd Wynnstay Ionawr 25. 1891.' On each of the front and rear faces is a foundary mark in raised letters: 'Coalbrookdale.' The rear face has a long curved handle to the centre.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a particularly fine and elaborate late Victorian village pump.
Group value with Hendy'r Ysgol adjacent.
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