The Ryder Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1975. Wellhouse. 5 related planning applications.
The Ryder Memorial
- WRENN ID
- south-plinth-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1975
- Type
- Wellhouse
- Address
- The Ryder Memorial, High Street, Bovingdon, HP3 0HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 014 037
- Coordinates
- 51.72343, -0.53208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ryder Memorial is a wellhouse built in 1881 by W. White FSA for the Ryder family. It is a small, timber-framed structure with a red brick plinth and blue brick chamfered offsets. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in shingles, topped with a wrought iron finial. The design incorporates Medieval detailing, with moulded wooden corner piers and curved braces extending to the eaves. The structure sits on an oak sill and chamfered brick plinth. An inscription on the wallplate commemorates Granville D Ryder, born in 1799 and died in 1879, and explains that the wellhouse was raised for the use and comfort of friends and villagers. The inscription incorporates a biblical quotation from John 4:14. The well itself has been covered over.
Local climate
The Ryder Memorial 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 84% 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 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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