Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
87274
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1983
Date of Amendment
16/12/2005
Name of Property
Pump to S of Steppe House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Montgomery
Town
Montgomery
Locality
Easting
322233
Northing
296627
Street Side
Location
Situated against garden wall to left of Steppe House.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
One of two public pumps surviving in the town dating from the modernisation of the water-supply by the Earls of Powis in the late C19. Dated 1871. The other, dated 1876, is on the corner of Church Bank and Princes Street.
Exterior
Water pump, wooden rectangular box structure with iron panels bolted to the front. The central panel has segmental-arched raised border around a large spout surmounted by an earl's coronet, with the date 1871 in the lower corners. Long iron pump handle attached to the right side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a pump with distinctive detail, of historical interest as part of the later C19 public water-supply to the town.
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