Well House at Annables Manor is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Well house.
Well House at Annables Manor
- WRENN ID
- tattered-facade-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Well House at Annables Manor, Harpenden Rural
- OS grid reference
- TL 100 155
- Coordinates
- 51.82798, -0.40412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House at Annables Manor is a Grade II listed building dating from the late 17th century. This single-storey structure features flint rubble walls with red brick piers at the corners and has a plain tile roof. On the north side, there is a 20th-century weatherboarded gable that serves as the entrance. The building has a canted plan with two bays.
On the south side, there are two glazing bar casements, while the east gable end has a 19th-century half-glazed door. Inside, the well house contains a large timber donkey tread mill for a deep well, located on the right side of the wheel. The tread mill features a timber wheel that measures twelve feet in diameter, with twelve chamfer-stopped spokes connected by dove-tail joints to the outer and central wooden rings, and reinforced with cast iron strengtheners. Above the well, there is a large axial turning beam set within a 17th-century red brick well surround. The roof structure includes tie beams and angle struts supporting the mid-height purlins.
Local climate
Well House at Annables Manor 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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