Well Head and War Memorial at Junction with Grange Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Well head, war memorial. 1 related planning application.
Well Head and War Memorial at Junction with Grange Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-gateway-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Well head, war memorial
- Address
- Well Head and War Memorial at Junction with Grange Street, Church Street, Clifton
- OS grid reference
- TL 164 389
- Coordinates
- 52.03698, -0.3033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The well head at the junction with Grange Street, later converted into a war memorial, dates from 1881, which is inscribed in the fretwork of the well head. It features a plaque commemorating those who served in World Wars I and II. The structure is made of timber, painted to resemble oak, with the lower part of the roof covered in plain and fishscale tiles, while the upper part has diamond-shaped slates. Designed in a picturesque style, it includes a small square shelter with a hipped lower roof and an upper part adorned with gablets, topped by a small lantern with a spire. The gablets and lantern feature fretwork decoration and wrought iron finials. Inside the well head, there is a gabled wood casing surmounted by a small embattled lantern. On the north side, a large ashlar tablet displays the names of parishioners who fell in the Great Wars, topped by a small bronze plaque.
Local climate
Well Head and War Memorial at Junction with Grange Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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