Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water Pump against SE Elevation of No 23 High Street
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 3 February 1981
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46188, -3.44737
- Cadw reference
- 13201
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Facing SW angle of Town Hall.
History
Mid to late C19.
Exterior
C19; black painted and panelled iron water pump, retaining spout, handle, pyramidal coping. The pump has a stone trough before it and stands on a raised platform of stone slabs with stone rubble sides which is set against the SE gable wall of no 23.
Reason for designation
Scarce C19 public water pump with group value with Town Hall, and No 23 High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 23 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- War Memorial in front of Town HallCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box Outside No 23 High StreetCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.