Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB17/03/058

Address :
Pump Outside Reformed Presbyterian Church Dublin Road Loughbrickland Banbridge Co. Down

Townland:
Drumnahare

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
29/12/2006 00:00:00

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:
220/16

IG Ref:
J1060 4190

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Owner Category

Local Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

A cow tail closed head lever type pump with a plain shaped spirally decorated column. It has a plain cap but with a 'standard' cast on top (? A replacement?). The lid over the adjoining well is inscribed 'Banbridge Foundry' The pump is situated on the roadside outside the Meeting House and has two small octagonal granite posts at the front.

Architects

Historical Information

Cited on the 1918 OS 6 inch map (PRONI Ref OS 6/3/34/4). Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no. 64.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A good example of a cow tailed water pump situated in a prominent roadside position. It has group value with the other water pumps in Loughbrickland.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 August 1995