The Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Well House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-remnant-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Well House, Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley, SG19 2EE
- OS grid reference
- TL 259 495
- Coordinates
- 52.13034, -0.16134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House is a house that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, previously featuring a panel above the door with the date 1707. It has a timber-framed structure covered in colourwashed roughcast render and is topped with clay tile roofs. The building has an L-plan layout, consisting of one storey and attics, with an earlier block to the west.
On the west elevation, the ground floor includes two 3-light casement windows with diamond leading. The attic features two gabled dormers that contain 3-light casement windows from the 20th century, also with diamond leading. The central doorway has a part-glazed panelled door beneath a gabled open porch, which aligns with a brick ridge stack that serves a back-to-back hearth and creates a lobby entrance. The northeast block is slightly lower, with parts of the wall covered in colourwashed brick, and there is a variety of casement windows throughout the building.
Local climate
The Well House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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