Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
30/03/1983
Date of Amendment
16/12/2005
Name of Property
Pump to S of Steppe House
Location
Situated against garden wall to left of Steppe House.
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
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.
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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