No 5 and Well and Wellhouse on North is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House, wellhouse. 3 related planning applications.

No 5 and Well and Wellhouse on North

WRENN ID
small-chapel-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
House, wellhouse
Address
No 5 and Well and Wellhouse on North, Little Gaddesden, HP4 1NR
OS grid reference
SP 984 143
Coordinates
51.81882, -0.57317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was divided in the 19th century into Nos. 5 and 6. The structure is timber-framed and has been cased in brick, topped with steep old red tile roofs. Adjoining to the north is a well and wellhouse, which is in its current form from the early 19th century. The wellhouse is timber-framed with herringbone red brick infill and features a tiled roof with a gabled central entrance.

The well includes a tall wood-cased pump with a finial and panelled front and rear, a panelled stone rectangular trough, and a wrought-iron S-curved handle on the north side. No. 5 extends into the southern end of this structure. The house has one and a half storeys and faces west, featuring a lobby-entry and an internal chimney plan. There is a staircase located at the rear of the stack, a rear outshut, axial floor beams, and two 3-light casement windows at different heights. The central door is disused, and there is a blocked door at one end, with the present door located at the north side along with a window to the right that leads to the extension in the wellhouse.

The house has three gabled dormers at the eaves and a central chimney in the front roofslope. The interior is said to have a massive tie-beam with a rebated moulded crown post and four-way bracing, along with a collar-purlin featuring a splayed and tabled joint, and a surviving aisle.

Local climate

No 5 and Well and Wellhouse on North 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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