Rebecca's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1994. Well house.
Rebecca's Well
- WRENN ID
- quiet-stair-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1994
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Rebecca's Well, Wargrave
- OS grid reference
- SU 799 804
- Coordinates
- 51.51766, -0.84943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rebecca's Well is a well house built around 1870, located in Crazies Hill, Wargrave. The well-head basin was constructed for the Reverend Greville Phillimore, and the well house above was designed by Gertrude Jekyll, who also painted the gable. The structure is made of roughcast brick and features a semi-conical tile roof with a gabled front. The plan is semi-circular, and the gabled front includes a semi-circular arch, a brick band, and dentils above. The painting in the gable, created by Jekyll, includes the inscription: "Rebeka and the Servants of Abraham at the well of Nahor. And the servants ran to meet her and said let I pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher." The painting depicts Rebecca and a servant by the well and appears to have been restored. Inside the well house, there is a carved stone inscription at the back with a cross above it, set in a segmental stone panel.
Local climate
Rebecca's Well 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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