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Latitude: 53.0288 / 53°1'43"N
Longitude: -3.008 / 3°0'28"W
OS Eastings: 332493
OS Northings: 348422
OS Grid: SJ324484
Mapcode National: GBR 75.F7TB
Mapcode Global: WH894.R4TC
Plus Code: 9C5R2XHR+GQ
Entry Name: Hydraulic Ram
Listing Date: 3 December 1996
Last Amended: 3 December 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 17868
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300017868
Location: Situated to c0.2km to the NW of Erddig between the cascade and the Cup and Saucer.
County: Wrexham
Community: Marchwiel (Marchwiail)
Community: Marchwiel
Locality: Erddig
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure Hydraulic ram
The ram was made by John Blake Ltd, engineers of Accrington in 1890. It was installed in 1899 and it pumped water at a rate of 45,460 litres per day up 27.5m to storage cisterns in the roof of the house. The system was renewed in 1923 and is still in working order.
Curved red brick structure with central inspection shaft set into the ground. At the N end is an offset arch-headed opening just below ground level into which is set an iron gate. This is reached by a flight of stone steps set between walls with flat tooled stone parapets.
Not inspected at time of 1996 survey but said to contain working valves and pipes.
Listed as a good working example of late C19 engineering and for historical associations with the Erddig Estate.
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