Building record 1203600000 - WATER PUMP IN PEBBLE LANE

Summary

Mid ninteenth century public water pump in Pebble Lane.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1160342: WATER PUMP (DBC3902)

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Type and Period (2)

  • WATER PUMP (Constructed about 1840, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) HAND PUMP (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Circa 1840, the only remaining exmple of the public pumps which supplied Aylesbury with drinking water. Cast iron with handle for hand pumping, shaft about 10 feet high. Secured to wall of lane by metal brackets (B1).
Installed in the 1840s and placed at a height to fill the water carts (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3590 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p36.
  • <2>SBC19614 Bibliographic reference: Elliott Viney & Pamala Nighingale. 1994. Old Aylesbury. p20.

Location

Grid reference SP 81797 13877 (point)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 18 2021 4:23PM

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