Well Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Well Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-trefoil-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Head Cottage, Bourne
- OS grid reference
- TF 095 199
- Coordinates
- 52.76642, -0.37845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Head Cottage, formerly known as Castle Farm, is a building that dates back to the early 18th century or earlier. It is located on the site where a Norman castle built by Baldwin FitzGilbert was said to have stood, which replaced a Saxon Manor that was home to Hereward the Wake. The original manor was destroyed by Cromwell's troops in 1645, after which this farmhouse was constructed. The cottage is two storeys high and features coursed stone with ashlar rusticated quoins, along with stone-capped gable ends. It has a steep roof made of old slate with red ridge tiles and two chimneys. The building has four windows with flat wood lintels and modern casements, a modern ground floor French window, and a plain modern door with a wood lintel.
Local climate
Well Head Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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