Barrel Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. House. 5 related planning applications.

Barrel Well House

WRENN ID
lunar-cellar-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 July 1998
Type
House
Address
Barrel Well House, 160, Boughton, CH3 5BR
OS grid reference
SJ 418 663
Coordinates
53.19121, -2.87176
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Barrel Well House is a detached house, now divided into flats, built around 1840. The structure is made of brick, which is now covered in pebbledash, and features a slate roof. It has two storeys on the entrance front and three storeys on the garden side, with a total of seven windows. The house has flush end-gable chimneys and one ridge chimney located towards the right.

The entrance front, which faces northeast, includes a projecting central wing. The door consists of six tall, narrow fielded panels set in a substantial case with pilasters and an entablature. The window arrangement has been altered and includes several flush 12-pane sash windows with rendered architraves.

The garden face, which is prominent from the River Dee and the meadows beyond, features a verandah on the ground floor and a continuous balcony under a hipped canopy on the first floor, supported by slender columns. The wall behind the verandah has undergone some alterations; it likely originally had a central French window flanked by three 12-pane sashes on each side, which have now been replaced with a one-pane glazed door and a 12-pane margined window in a small projection to the left, with two sashes to the left and three to the right of the door.

On the first floor, there are seven full-height 15-pane sash windows with architraves, and the front of the balcony features fretted segmental-arched heads and simple railings. The second floor has a sill band and seven 12-pane sash windows. The interiors have not been inspected. This building was likely formed by uniting two detached mid-19th century houses, which were later remodeled in the late 19th century.

Local climate

Barrel Well House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Chester House, Garden Chambers and Wall Grade II 23 m
  2. East Entrance to Campbell Memorial Hall Grade II 62 m
  3. Cemetery wall of former Leprosy Hospital of St Giles Grade II 65 m
  4. Drinking Fountain at Junction with Boughton Grade II 73 m
  5. Campbell Memorial Hall (Excluding East Entrance) and Former Cottage Grade II 84 m
  6. Church of St Paul Grade II* 89 m
  7. 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD (See details for further address information) Grade II 91 m
  8. 145 and 147, Boughton Grade II 122 m
  9. Ye Gardeners Arms Public House Grade II 128 m
  10. Number 143 and Garden Wall Grade II 130 m