Chalybeate Wellhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Well house.
Chalybeate Wellhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-courtyard-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Chalybeate Wellhouse, Church Road, Quarndon
- OS grid reference
- SK 332 404
- Coordinates
- 52.96003, -1.50621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chalybeate Wellhouse is an early 19th-century well house located on Church Road in the parish of Quarndon. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and sandstone ashlar, built into the hillside with a rock-faced retaining wall. The building is a single storey with single bays on either side of a canted projection. It features two plain bands and an embattled and coped parapet. The canted projection includes a three-bay open arcade with pointed arches. To the left, there is a doorway with a pointed arch and a plank door, while to the right, there is a blind window with a pointed arch. Inside the arcade, iron railings enclose the former pool. A plaque on the building is inscribed with information about the 17th-century Chalybeate Spring Well, which was once a famous spa known for its medicinal iron-rich waters and was visited by Daniel Defoe in 1727.
Local climate
Chalybeate Wellhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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