Upper Wellhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Well, pump shelter.
Upper Wellhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-beam-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Well, pump shelter
- Address
- Upper Wellhouse, High Street, Great Budworth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 664 775
- Coordinates
- 53.29383, -2.50483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Wellhouse is a well or pump shelter built in the later 19th century. It features a red sandstone plinth and an oak frame supported by massive posts, topped with a hipped clay-tile roof. The structure is rectangular and open at the front and ends, while the rear is walled. The front has three posts on a weathered sandstone plinth, each with a Tudor-arched head in the bays. There are entries at both ends, also featuring similar Tudor arches. A wrought iron railing at the front has curved spikes projecting from each rail and trident rail heads. The rear wall, made of sandstone and brick, includes a bucket-stone and an iron plate that once held a spout. The roof frame is constructed from softwood.
Local climate
Upper Wellhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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