Shorey Well in Garden of Burnley College Adult Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Well.

Shorey Well in Garden of Burnley College Adult Education Centre

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Burnley
Constituency
Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Well
Address
Shorey Well in Garden of Burnley College Adult Education Centre, Bank Parade
OS grid reference
SD 842 330
Coordinates
53.79371, -2.24065
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shorey Well is a former public well located in the garden of Burnley College Adult Education Centre. Originally situated on the east side of the River Brun, opposite Dawson Square, the well structure was renewed in 1736 and was moved to its current location around 1881. It is made of sandstone rubble and features a roughly-hewn monolithic rectangular basin, although the front of the basin is now damaged. The well is set into a short low rubble bank that is approximately 2 meters long and 0.5 meters high, with a simple recess and plain lintel. This well commemorates the former only source of pure water in St Peter's hamlet and is part of a group with the Cross of St Paulinus and the base of the former market cross.

Local climate

Shorey Well in Garden of Burnley College Adult Education Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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