Sterne's Well, Circa 100 Metres South West of Back Lane Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. Well.
Sterne's Well, Circa 100 Metres South West of Back Lane Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-cobble-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Well
- OS grid reference
- NZ 651 183
- Coordinates
- 54.55628, -0.99428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sterne's Well, located approximately 100 meters south-west of Back Lane Farmhouse, is a well head housing for an artesian well that supplied water to Skelton Castle. It dates from the late 18th century and features sandstone ashlar walls and a roof. The structure is a squat tower about 3 meters high, with chamfered rustication on three faces. The west face has a round-headed opening that is now blocked internally but still retains a boarded door. Below the square-domed roof, there is a plain, slightly-recessed band with three paterae that have beaded surrounds and bear Latin inscriptions. Above the doorway, a rectangular plaque features an inscribed verse, likely by Lawrence Sterne: "Leap from thy mossy cavern'd bed Hither thy prattling waters bring Blandusia's Muse shall crown thy head and make thee too a sacred spring."
Local climate
Sterne's Well, Circa 100 Metres South West of Back Lane Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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