Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pump to S of Steppe House
Montgomery, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1983
- Town
- Montgomery
- Community
- Montgomery
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.56190, -3.14863
- Cadw reference
- 87274
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated against garden wall to left of Steppe House.
History
One of two public pumps surviving in the town dating from the modernisation of the water-supply by the Earls of Powis in the late C19. Dated 1871. The other, dated 1876, is on the corner of Church Bank and Princes Street.
Exterior
Water pump, wooden rectangular box structure with iron panels bolted to the front. The central panel has segmental-arched raised border around a large spout surmounted by an earl's coronet, with the date 1871 in the lower corners. Long iron pump handle attached to the right side.
Reason for designation
Included as a pump with distinctive detail, of historical interest as part of the later C19 public water-supply to the town.
Nearby in the register
- Steppe HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The White House with terrace and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Town Bank & DitchesTown Wallunder 1 mi
- Telephone call-box opposite Chapel PlaceCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.