Physic Well is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Well. 1 related planning application.
Physic Well
- WRENN ID
- sunken-remnant-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Well
- Address
- Physic Well, Well Approach
- OS grid reference
- TQ 233 958
- Coordinates
- 51.64804, -0.21897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Physic Well is a timber-framed structure with a cruciform cover, built around 1937. It features herringbone brick and plaster panels. The spring was discovered around 1650. Beneath the well house is the original 17th-century barrel-vaulted brick well chamber, which has a brick floor and two shallow pools, along with associated pipework. The well was visited by Samuel Pepys on at least two occasions in 1664 and 1667 and became a popular meeting place for Londoners seeking the medicinal benefits of the mineral waters.
Local climate
Physic Well sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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