Village Wellhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Wellhouse.
Village Wellhouse
- WRENN ID
- endless-chimney-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1966
- Type
- Wellhouse
- Address
- Village Wellhouse, Forest Road, Woodhouse
- OS grid reference
- SK 539 153
- Coordinates
- 52.73346, -1.20185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Wellhouse, dating from around 1850, is a Grade II listed structure located on Woodhouse Forest Road. It is built from granite rubble stone and dressed granite, featuring timber work and a Swithland slate roof. This single-storey building has a gabled design and is open at the front, with intricate open work sides set on a stone plinth. At the rear, there is an apsidal niche in the stone wall that contains a bull's head, likely made of bell metal, which serves as a water spout, with a small granite trough positioned beneath it.
Local climate
Village Wellhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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