Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hydraulic Ram
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 December 1996
- Locality
- Erddig
- Community
- Marchwiel
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02881, -3.00801
- Cadw reference
- 17868
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to c0.2km to the NW of Erddig between the cascade and the Cup and Saucer.
History
The ram was made by John Blake Ltd, engineers of Accrington in 1890. It was installed in 1899 and it pumped water at a rate of 45,460 litres per day up 27.5m to storage cisterns in the roof of the house. The system was renewed in 1923 and is still in working order.
Exterior
Curved red brick structure with central inspection shaft set into the ground. At the N end is an offset arch-headed opening just below ground level into which is set an iron gate. This is reached by a flight of stone steps set between walls with flat tooled stone parapets.
Interior
Not inspected at time of 1996 survey but said to contain working valves and pipes.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good working example of late C19 engineering and for historical associations with the Erddig Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Cup and SaucerGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and attached gates and railings on N driveDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge over the Black BrookTransportunder 1 mi
- ErddigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.