Gosfield Hall, Well House Adjacent to North East of Horse Gin is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Well house.
Gosfield Hall, Well House Adjacent to North East of Horse Gin
- WRENN ID
- kindled-column-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Well house
- OS grid reference
- TL 774 297
- Coordinates
- 51.93833, 0.58055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House, located adjacent to the northeast of the Horse Gin at Gosfield Hall, is a 19th-century structure. It is built of red brick and features an octagonal shape with a red tiled roof that has red ridge tiles. The base of the well house has a diameter of 10 feet and stands 2 feet high, supporting the octagonal hipped roof above. The winding gear inside appears to be complete and is connected by a driving shaft to the Horse Gin nearby.
Local climate
Gosfield Hall, Well House Adjacent to North East of Horse Gin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
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