Survey Data
Reg No
40402603
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Water pump
In Use As
Water pump
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
250151, 304036
Date Recorded
02/08/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880. Circular banded shaft, wider fluted head with gadrooned domed cap and spike pinnacle. Spout with raised rim and projecting bucket lip, cow tailed handle pivoted on lug projecting from one side of head. Secured on concrete slab surrounded by iron railings at roadside location.
Appraisal
This water pump is an important feature of social history in the village Stradone, as it is a reminder of the provision of a communal water source before the provision of the mains water supply. It is simple but elegant in design, ans is an execellent example of the high quality of mass produced cast-iron in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.