Description

TL 1824 PRESTON THE GREEN (West side)

9/93 Well, wellhead gear, and wellhouse

GV II

Well, wellhead gear and wellhouse. 1872 provided by Darton family of Temple Dinsley when local ponds had dried up in a hot summer. Well said to be 226ft deep, now capped off. Octagonal wellhouse open at sides has steep pointed octagonal slate roof and 8 chamfered stout oak posts now raised on concrete pads from octagonal Yorkstone step. Cast iron gear arranged E-W over top of well. Rectangular openwork moulded iron trestle with battered ends, longitudinal bars at half height carrying lower axle, another near top with another axle and top member swept up in a segmental curve. Moulded braces sweep in to support lower bar and then intersect as cross-bracing to upper panel. 2 large 4ft diameter flywheels with handles one each end of lower axle. Cog of 15 teeth engages a gear of 96 teeth on upper axle also carrying flanged iron drawing pulley. A larger gear of 60 teeth on lower axle for unclear purpose. King-post roof in softwood. (Branch Johnson (1970)93: inf Mrs Nina Freebody).

Listing NGR: TL1800624744

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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