Drinking Well at Devonshire Royal Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1997. Drinking well. 2 related planning applications.
Drinking Well at Devonshire Royal Hospital
- WRENN ID
- calm-footing-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1997
- Type
- Drinking well
- Address
- Drinking Well at Devonshire Royal Hospital, George Street, SK17 6AY
- OS grid reference
- SK 057 736
- Coordinates
- 53.25948, -1.91489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Drinking Well at Devonshire Royal Hospital is a structure built in 1882, with renovations around 1990. It is constructed from tooled dressed gritstone and ashlar, featuring ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs that have square louvred vents at the ridge. The building is single storey with a plinth and flush ashlar quoins.
The south front has a single bay with a round-headed doorway that includes 6-panel double doors and a large fanlight with glazing bars and a moulded inner arch. The outer arch is connected by an impost band with an inscription that reads, "ST ANN'S WELL WATER PUMP ROOM FOR DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL PATIENTS ONLY," all beneath an open pedimented gable.
On the west front, there is a slightly projecting, off-centre single bay with round-headed windows. The inner arch of these windows is linked to the round-headed outer arch by an impost band that bears the inscription, "DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL DRINKING WELL AD 1882," also under an open pedimented gable. There are single 12-pane glazing bar windows on either side, with a smaller glazing bar window set back to the left.
The interior has not been inspected but is said to contain a pump that supplies water to the Devonshire Royal Hospital.
Local climate
Drinking Well at Devonshire Royal Hospital sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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