Dene Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Well house.
Dene Well House
- WRENN ID
- patient-spire-sunrise
- 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 house
- Address
- Dene Well House, Northwich Road, Great Budworth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 661 774
- Coordinates
- 53.29268, -2.50892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dene Well House is a wellhouse built in 1880 by Edmund Kirby for Rowland or Piers Egerton Warburton. It features an oak frame set on a weathered sandstone plinth and has a stone-slate roof with a gable at the front. The structure showcases open framing with large timbers closely spaced, a Tudor-arched entrance adorned with an ornate wrought-iron gate, and cusped oak bargeboards.
Inside, a flowing spout projects water into a stone trough with a bucket-stand. Above the trough, there is a stone plaque inscribed with a verse by R Egerton Warburton, who was a squire and minor poet. The verse reads:
"BLESSINGS IN NEVER ENDING LOVE
ARE ON US POURED FROM HEAVEN ABOVE
THIS RUNNING STREAM WITH CEASELESS FLOW
SPRINGS FROM THE BOUNTEOUS EARTH BELOW;
ALIKE IN BOTH HIS GOODNESS SHOWN
WHOM HEAVEN AND EARTH THEIR MAKER OWN."
Additionally, there is a plain iron railing to the right of the well-house, along with the spout and kerb of a former horse-trough.
Local climate
Dene Well House 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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