Wellhouse And Adjoining Root Arbour

The Wellhouse, built around 1720, is a two-storey structure featuring Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It has cisterns on the upper floor and a well on the ground floor. There are three entrances on the ground floor, one with a segmental brick arched head and another (now blocked) with a heavy stone surround and segmental head. Each gable has a circular-headed window with a stone surround. The interior remains largely intact, housing manually operated twin wooden-cased suction pumps that provided domestic water to Dunham Hall until around 1860. The adjoining root arbour, possibly from the mid-18th century or later, was formerly connected to the orangery. It is five-sided and features arched openings on each side, supported by tree trunks.