Building record 2240/0/2 - Well Head & Attached Trough c.50m East of No.7 Achurch

{2} Well head and attached trough. Late C19 for Lord Lilford. Ashlar trough and plinth with wooden well-head and plain-tile roof. Well head is decorated with Gothic tracery and 2 angels. Hipped roof forming a hood over the well head has a wooden cross at the ridge. Inscription under eaves: "In Memory of Thomas Atherton Powys MDCCCLXXXII". Wooden covers to well and cast-iron well and lead spout to rear. Erected by fourth Baron Lilford in memory of his son.

{3} Well head and attached trough. Built in the late C19th for the 4th Baron Lilford in memory of his son; ashlar trough and plinth. Wooden well head with plain tile roof, decorated with Gothic tracery and two angels. Inscription. Wooden covers to well and cast-iron well and lead spout to rear.

{4}{5}{6} On the east side of the Lilford to Thorpe Waterville road, opposite a row of former Lilford estate workers' cottages is a well and pump built as a memorial to Thomas Athurton Powys in 1882. Then single throw pump was worked by a five-spoked wheel, of which only the stumps of the spokes remain, on a crankshaft supported by two wooden A-frames. This is behind the rectangular stone well head, which has a spout at the rear and a trough at the side facing the road. The whole is surmounted by a tiled narrow roof, carried on elaborate brackets from two uprights, each with a carved angel, all wood. The well was in use until 1950 when the village was connected to mains water.

<1> Architectural Drawings Collection, (unchecked) (Drawing). SNN55059.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 7/131 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G09 p.67 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<4> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2001, NIAG Industrial Gazetteer, Site 1 (checked) (Draft). SNN101121.

<5> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2001, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage Of Northamptonshire, p.8 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN104759.

<6> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2011, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage of Northamptonshire (2nd Edition), p.10 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN107622.

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May 30 2013 5:37PM