Well House at Croxley House is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1972. Well house. 1 related planning application.
Well House at Croxley House
- WRENN ID
- grim-steeple-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1972
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Well House at Croxley House, the Green, Croxley Green, WD3 3JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 069 965
- Coordinates
- 51.65721, -0.45482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House at Croxley House is a late 18th-century structure featuring a well head gear. It is an open-fronted brick building topped with a half hipped tiled roof. Inside, there is a timber mechanism where the well head winding gear is operated by hand from a platform on the right side. An iron cranked handle turns a large open spoked timber wheel mounted on a timber frame, which engages with large and small wooden cog wheels set on iron and timber axles. This setup drives an iron toothed timber wheel that moves the lifting chain.
Local climate
Well House at Croxley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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