Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB25/03/004

Address :
Pump outside 272 Comber Road Dundonald Belfast

Townland:
Ballybeen

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Pump

Former Use
Pump

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
148/1NW

IG Ref:
J4235 7304

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A cow tail closed head lever pump with a plain shaped spirally decorated column and a fluted cap. 'Grainger & Son Comber' is embossed around the top of the column. It is located in a walled recess on the east side of the road outside several semidetached houses which it served.

Architects

Historical Information

Not shown on the 1919 OS 25 inch map (PRONI Ref OS 10/3/5/10/4); first shown on the 1931 edition (/2). A local informant sated that it worked until the arrival of mains water in 1963. Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997. Pump no 43.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A water pump in a prominent roadside location. Its interest has been diminished with the loss of iots handle and the build up of the footpath around it.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 August 1995