Wellhouse and Adjoining Root Arbour is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Wellhouse.
Wellhouse and Adjoining Root Arbour
- WRENN ID
- north-mantel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Wellhouse
- OS grid reference
- SJ 735 875
- Coordinates
- 53.38416, -2.399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Wellhouse and Adjoining Root Arbour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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