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| style="width:50%"| '''Name''' || Pumps and wells
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| '''Address''' || Jubilee Crescent and Main Street
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| '''OS grid ref''' || NO 26790 7118
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15′03″N 3°10′59″W
| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15′03″N 3°10′59″W
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| '''Listing''' || Category C
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| '''Listing reference''' || LB45583
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Newton of Falkland, Jubilee Crescent and Main Street, water pumps and wells
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| '''Description'''
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19th century. Group of 2 water pumps and 2 Kennedy wells, all approximately 2ft high.
MAIN STREET W (NO 2679 0712): Kennedy well sited at road junction on corner, by low garden wall; base with projecting cast-iron bottle support, fluted cast iron column with lionhead mask water spout below roll-moulded cornice and fluted domed cap with acorn finial.
MAIN STREET E (NO 2686 0710): Kennedy well sited in cottage garden; detailed as above.


JUBILEE CRESCENT N (NO 2672 0725): sited against a wall with part recess, fluted cast-iron column with plain spout and fluted cap, railed drainage grid/ stand to foreground.
JUBILEE CRESCENT S (NO 2673 0725): sited on green area at roadside, stone shaft with pitched cap and inset cast-iron pump.
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|'''Statement of special interest'''
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Unusual survival of a once common-place communal utility, here effectively clustered and displaying notable variety. The Kennedy wells were a form of permanent standpipe made by Glenfield and Kennedy; the ribbed knob operated an internal valve controlling the flow of water from an undergound pipe.
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Revision as of 17:51, 18 February 2021

Building summary
[photo awaited]
Name Pumps and wells
Address Jubilee Crescent and Main Street
Postcode
Other names
Date
OS grid ref NO 26790 7118
Latitude & longitude 56°15′03″N 3°10′59″W
Listing Category C
Listing reference LB45583
Listing date

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HES listing details[1]
Address/Site Name

Newton of Falkland, Jubilee Crescent and Main Street, water pumps and wells

Description

19th century. Group of 2 water pumps and 2 Kennedy wells, all approximately 2ft high.

MAIN STREET W (NO 2679 0712): Kennedy well sited at road junction on corner, by low garden wall; base with projecting cast-iron bottle support, fluted cast iron column with lionhead mask water spout below roll-moulded cornice and fluted domed cap with acorn finial.

MAIN STREET E (NO 2686 0710): Kennedy well sited in cottage garden; detailed as above.

JUBILEE CRESCENT N (NO 2672 0725): sited against a wall with part recess, fluted cast-iron column with plain spout and fluted cap, railed drainage grid/ stand to foreground.

JUBILEE CRESCENT S (NO 2673 0725): sited on green area at roadside, stone shaft with pitched cap and inset cast-iron pump.

Statement of special interest

Unusual survival of a once common-place communal utility, here effectively clustered and displaying notable variety. The Kennedy wells were a form of permanent standpipe made by Glenfield and Kennedy; the ribbed knob operated an internal valve controlling the flow of water from an undergound pipe.

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