Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23909
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/08/2000
Date of Amendment
15/08/2000
Name of Property
Water lift pump on road to Penowern
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bryn-Crug
Town
Locality
Bryn Crug
Easting
260817
Northing
303117
Street Side
Location
The pump stands on the corner of the road to Penowern farm, and Ffordd-y-felin.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Erected probably in the mid-late C19 when a piped public water supply was brought to the village.
Exterior
Made of cast iron. A vertical fluted pipe rising to a Doric cap, and a spout with scrolled bucket hook, having a leaf like form at its junction with the main pipe. round bar iron handle hooked at its end. On the rising pipe, a lion rampant on an oval plate, reading in raised lettering Norton Hamar, the lower half obscured by the collar of an angled stay bar, added later. The pump has recently been painted.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C19 water pump, one of a group of such pumps in the area, an interesting example of a public amenity, unusual in a rural area.
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