The Whittling Well is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Well.

The Whittling Well

WRENN ID
patient-lantern-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
Well
Address
The Whittling Well, Heath Common, Warmfield Cum Heath
OS grid reference
SE 355 196
Coordinates
53.67253, -1.46319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Whittling Well is a well head and cover dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from dressed and rock-faced stone. The well features a semi-elliptical archway made with alternately raised rock-faced voussoirs and a dropped keystone. Above the trough, there is a dressed stone intrados with a canted stone front. On either side of the well, there is a short piece of walling that has banded rustication, which terminates in low piers.

Local climate

The Whittling Well receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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