The best thing about this very short post is the title.
I was heading home through Bunny and stopped on Gotham Lane to check out three little structures called ‘Water House’ on an old map, mainly to see what they were.
Phone pics only.
The little northernmost one in a field.
The middle one was uphill in some woods but seems to have gone with a brick-lined pit at the approximate location.
The southern one at the top of the woods.
There were two pipes with filters under a couple of feet of water although only one is visible in the photo below.
Looking them up later, the two remaining structures turn out to be listed, built by Sir Thomas Parkyns, ‘The Wrestling Baronet of Bunny’, who also rebuilt much of Bunny itself in the early 1700s.
This may explain why the top one looks like some of the buildings in the village (Google street view):
As to what these little structures were for, there’s no sign of any machinery so is seems they were simply for water collection and filtration.
The top water house is probably fed by a spring and may have been a source of drinking water for a neighbouring farm or the village.
I was heading home through Bunny and stopped on Gotham Lane to check out three little structures called ‘Water House’ on an old map, mainly to see what they were.
Phone pics only.
The little northernmost one in a field.
The middle one was uphill in some woods but seems to have gone with a brick-lined pit at the approximate location.
The southern one at the top of the woods.
There were two pipes with filters under a couple of feet of water although only one is visible in the photo below.
Looking them up later, the two remaining structures turn out to be listed, built by Sir Thomas Parkyns, ‘The Wrestling Baronet of Bunny’, who also rebuilt much of Bunny itself in the early 1700s.
This may explain why the top one looks like some of the buildings in the village (Google street view):
As to what these little structures were for, there’s no sign of any machinery so is seems they were simply for water collection and filtration.
The top water house is probably fed by a spring and may have been a source of drinking water for a neighbouring farm or the village.
