Well House at the Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1981. Well house.
Well House at the Manor House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-trefoil-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1981
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Well House at the Manor House, Rickmansworth Road, Chorleywood
- OS grid reference
- TQ 035 966
- Coordinates
- 51.65908, -0.50418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House at the Manor House is a 19th-century structure located on the northeast side of Rickmansworth Road in Chorleywood. This timber building features a tiled roof and is designed as a square house supported by four posts with braces to the plates, which hold up a pyramidal roof. Inside, there are two internal posts that support a tie holding the winding gear. The well house is hand-operated by a handle connected to a large round wheel, which is now detached. This mechanism lowers an axle with a small cog wheel on one side that engages with a large upper cog wheel. The upper axle holds a central toothed wheel over which a lifting chain passes. Stone slabs cover the well. The building is incorrectly marked on the Ordnance Survey map as being on Chenies Road.
Local climate
Well House at the Manor House 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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