Well Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Cottage.
Well Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-storey-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Head Cottage, Thruxton
- OS grid reference
- SO 432 341
- Coordinates
- 52.00305, -2.82772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Head Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century, with extensions added in the late 19th century and late 20th century. It is built from sandstone rubble and features a timber frame with plaster infill, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The cottage has an external stone end stack with a brick shaft and an apsidal stone external bread oven that has a sandstone slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan that is roughly aligned east to west, consisting of two structural bays that are extended by one bay to the east. It is one storey high with an attic. The north elevation includes two ground floor 2-light 20th-century casement windows, one on each side, and a gabled 3-light contemporary dormer window to the left of centre, with the entry located on the south side. The frame features three panels from the cill to the wall-plate, and the added east end displays mock timber-framing.
Local climate
Well Head Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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