water pump — SKREEN

The label water pump gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.

The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.

The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.

The saved source records: Set within rendered walls with concrete base and drain.

water pump — SKREEN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This cast-iron water pump makes a positive contribution to the streetscape in Skreen. The decorative detailing, such as the banding and fluting add artistic interest to this functional object. Waterpumps played an important social and functional role in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by providing a communal water source. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.