Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Wellhouse.

Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners

WRENN ID
blind-portal-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Wellhouse
Address
Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners, Windmill Road, Flamstead
OS grid reference
TL 079 167
Coordinates
51.83855, -0.43515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wellhouse, well, and wellhead gear are 18th-century structures located next to the west wall of Bonners. The wellhouse is a timber-framed shed that is dark weatherboarded, featuring a pitched red tile roof with the west gable end open. The well itself is over 200 feet deep and partly lined with brick. The wellhouse is a single-storey building with two bays, situated next to the rear wing of Bonners. The wellhead gear is still operational, featuring an iron crank on a square-section iron shaft at the east, with a large oak flywheel approximately 6 feet in diameter, which has four spokes on the same spindle set between oak uprights framed to the roof purlin. A 6-toothed iron cog drives a 48-toothed solid wooden wheel with hornbeam teeth, which is fixed to a 4-foot wide wooden winding drum. The rope that draws the bucket is guided over an 18-inch diameter narrow wooden pulley, which has four wooden arms to assist in directing the rope. Additionally, there is a smaller diameter wooden brake wheel to the west of the flywheel, equipped with a low brake bar pivoted to the oak uprights.

Local climate

Wellhouse, Well and Wellhead Gear Next West Wall of Bonners sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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