Wellhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Wellhouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-sill-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wellhouse Farmhouse, Wellhouse Lane, Hermitage
- OS grid reference
- SU 521 727
- Coordinates
- 51.45154, -1.25032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wellhouse Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse, now a large house, that has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is primarily vitreous brick with red brick dressings and old tile hipped roofs, with a flat roof in the centre. It has a double-depth plan and a 20th-century closed porch extension on the west side. The farmhouse is two storeys and has attics, with chimneys on the rear roof slope.
The west front has seven irregular bays and a blocked opening at the south end, with an entrance porch to the right of centre. The south front features three bays, with two bays on the first floor blocked and a 2-light casement window in the centre. There are two sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor, and one is blocked on the right. On the east front, an old Phoenix fire insurance plaque, number 6625, is located on the wall below the first-floor cill level, in the fourth bay from the left.
The interior includes cast iron fireplaces on both the ground and first floors, some of which have Delft tiles on the first floor.
Local climate
Wellhouse Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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