Winifred's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Well house.
Winifred's Well
- WRENN ID
- watchful-soffit-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Winifred's Well, Newport Road, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
- OS grid reference
- SZ 446 877
- Coordinates
- 50.6879, -1.36907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winifred's Well is a well house built in the early 18th century. It is constructed of both black and red brick and is a square, single-storey building. The structure features pointed arches on all four sides, with three sides being blank and a doorcase on the northeast side that originally had a door on pintle hinges. The walls are made of black brick in header bond, accented by red brick pilasters on the sides. The roof, which was originally pyramidal and made of brown brick, is now decayed. Inside, the well house has a domed roof, whitewashed walls, and the outlines of a filled-in well. The name "Winifred's Well" is believed to commemorate a former owner of the Swainston estate in the mid-16th century, who was the second daughter of Henry Lord Montague and initiated the Barrington family's ownership of Swainston.
Local climate
Winifred's Well receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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