American Standard Hampton Widespread Bathroom Faucet Lever Handle Base - AMS-916503

The 916503 is the lever handle base for a Hampton widespread bathroom faucet, the escutcheon-style body the lever mounts on at each valve. It's a genuine American Standard repair part, sold as the base component rather than a complete handle assembly or a full faucet. If your lever is broken, you need the lever; if the base under it is pitted, cracked, or the finish has gone, this is the piece.

Two finishes are made: polished chrome (part 916503-0020A) and oil rubbed bronze (part 916503-2240A). Order the one matching the rest of the faucet, since a repair part in the wrong finish will read as an obvious mismatch on a widespread set where the two handle bases sit either side of the spout. If you're servicing a bank of identical baths in a building, pull the finish off one intact faucet and repeat it.

A widespread lavatory faucet has two handles, hot and cold, each on its own valve body. The 916503 is one handle base, so replacing both sides means ordering two. Buy two anyway if you're doing this for appearance rather than damage, since a new base beside an old one on the same sink will not look the same.

No. This base is built for the Hampton widespread configuration, where the handles are separate bodies spaced apart from the spout. A centerset faucet carries its handles on a shared deck plate and a single-hole faucet has one lever on the spout body, so neither takes this part. Match the repair part to the Hampton widespread trim you actually have.

It's a genuine American Standard repair part, ordered by the manufacturer's own numbers, 916503-0020A in chrome and 916503-2240A in oil rubbed bronze. That matters on Hampton trim because the base has to seat correctly against the valve body and carry the lever without play, and it needs to match the factory finish next to it.

It is. The base is a bolt-on trim piece over the valve, not a plumbing repair, so it doesn't mean pulling the faucet or opening the supply lines beyond shutting off the stops. At half a pound it's easy to stock a few on the truck in whichever finish your buildings use, so a scratched or corroded handle base doesn't turn into a whole-faucet replacement.

The handle base measures 10.433 x 4.1 x 1 inches as packed and weighs 0.505 lb, so it's a small, light part. The working footprint on the deck is the base column itself, not that longest dimension. On a widespread faucet the two valve bodies sit in separate deck holes, so you're servicing one side at a time and the spout stays put.