Ancient Well is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. Well.
Ancient Well
- WRENN ID
- rusted-stronghold-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Constituency
- Bracknell MP: Peter Swallow (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1972
- Type
- Well
- Address
- Ancient Well, Scotland Hill, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- SU 832 618
- Coordinates
- 51.34949, -0.8053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ancient Well is a structure located on Scotland Hill in Sandhurst, dating from 1874. It features a hexagonal plan with a brick base constructed in Flemish bond and a tiled pyramidal roof. The superstructure is timber framed, adorned with scalloped braces, coved and ribbed eaves, and an open roof. The well is now blocked with concrete and was built as a memorial to Harriet Walter Vyvyan of Forest End, who died in 1874.
Local climate
Ancient Well receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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