Monument Number 1384655 |
| Hob Uid: 1384655 | |
Location :
Shropshire
Uffington
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| Grid Ref : SJ5424615092 |
| Summary : An ornamental post-medieval conduit house, probably of 16th century date, built to supply ornamental water features and associated with the conversion of Haughmond Abbey to a private residence. Previously erroneously interpreted as the medieval well of the Abbey. The building is constructed of re-used ashlar masonry indicating it is later than the abbey, and a stone niche above the door on the west side is clearly a re-used medieval architectural fragment. The structure could possibly be a re-built medieval cistern, moved from elsewhere within the claustral complex, such as from the head of the reredorter drain.The water supply from the conduit house entered the east side of the long pond via a single leat. The conduit house itself was fed by two leats which lead in opposite directions along the escarpment behind the building. The leat to the south runs from the conduit house to the inside edge of the monastic precinct boundary where it taps into the spring which originally fed two natural gullies. The second leat resembles a long, narrow, pond and is itself fed from the north where there are vestiges of a slight surface drain heading towards the reservoir pond for the monastic reredorter drain. |
More information : (SJ 5424 1509) Conduit house.
Between January and December 2002, English Heritage carried out a detailed analytical field survey of the environs of the standing buildings of Haughmond Abbey (Event record 1384572) (1). The survey, which covered an area of 19ha, was intended to inform the site's management and to put into context the findings of the small-scale excavations carried out between 1975 and 1979.
For further details, see Archaeological Investigation Report AI/10/2003, which includes photographs, plans at various scales, interpretative diagrams and a full textual description and analysis. (1)
Scheduled. (2) |