Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House.
Well House
- WRENN ID
- turning-sill-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Well House, Road Lane, Whitworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 890 160
- Coordinates
- 53.64073, -2.16746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well House is a house with a top floor loomshop, built in the late 18th century and now used as a residence. It features watershot coursed sandstone blocks with some quoins and a stone slate roof, with a chimney located at the left gable. The building has a double depth, 2-bay plan and is set against a slope, presenting a 3-storey front and a 2-storey rear.
On the front lower ground floor, there are garage doors left of centre, a square window to the left, and coupled square windows to the right. The upper ground floor has two coupled square windows, while the top floor boasts a continuous 14-light workshop window with square mullions. Some of the lights are blocked (specifically the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th), and casements have replaced the 8th to 10th and 12th to 14th lights. To the right, there is a single-storey flat-roofed addition that supports a lean-to conservatory.
The left return wall features a raised entrance to the upper ground floor, which is accessed by steps and a flying deck, along with one window at this level and another above. The rear of the house includes a door and one window, with two oblong windows positioned above.
Local climate
Well House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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