Well House at Annables Manor

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TL 11 NW 2/94

HARPENDEN RURAL KINSBOURNE GREEN (west side) Well House at Annables Manor

(Formerly listed as Well House at Annables Farm)

GV II

Well house. Later C17. Single storey building containing a large timber donkey tread mill for a deep well on the right side of the wheel. Flint rubble walls with red brick piers at the angles. Plain tile roof. C20 weatherboarded gable on north (entrance) side. Canted plan of two bays. South side has two glazing bar casements and the east gable end a C19 half-glazed door. The tread mill is in the centre of the plan, a timber wheel twelve feet in diameter. Twelve chamfer-stopped spokes with dove-tail joints to the outer and central wooden rings. Cast iron strengtheners. Large axial turning beam set above C17 red brick well surround. Roof has tie beams and angle struts to mid-height purlins.

Listing NGR: TL1007315578