Description

WATTON-AT-STONE HIGH STREET
TL 3019
(Southwest side)
Watton-at-stone
9/189 Village Pump and Housing
- on SE corner with
Station Road
GV II

Village pump and housing. 1894. Given by Abel Smith of Woodhall Park
(q.v.) as a memorial to his son Lt. Gen. P. Smith. Stone base to cast
iron pump. Timber housing with a shingled and leaded roof. In a
classical style. Pump base has trough with rounded corners. Pump is a
large bulbous vase with rich acanthus decoration. Scotia and torus foot
with a cavetto moulded head to plinth. Astragals on necking with rings.
Above a moulded curving spout. Scrolled attachment for handle, now
missing. Housing has 4 posts, each a stylized, entasized Ionic column.
Key blocked segmental arches with scrolled brackets to eaves which has a
continuous band of dedicatory inscription. Roof is swept out pagoda
style with scrolled iron flourishes at corners. Atop it all is a small
turret with 2 round headed timber arches to each side. Brattishing to
ogee spirelet, wavy leading and ball finial. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TL3004419389

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381482

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)