St Ethelburga's Well and Wall to North and South is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1975. Well-house and shelter.

St Ethelburga's Well and Wall to North and South

WRENN ID
idle-granite-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1975
Type
Well-house and shelter
Address
St Ethelburga's Well and Wall to North and South, Well Road, Lyminge
OS grid reference
TR 161 409
Coordinates
51.12668, 1.08794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Ethelburga's Well and Wall is a well-house and shelter built in 1898, with a possibly slightly earlier base. It is located over a spring that is said to have supplied Lyminge with water from Roman times until 1905. The structure is rectangular and two-storey, with its west side built against a steep slope. The building is made of red brick, which is slightly more textured on the lower half. There is a round-headed archway with an impost-level plat band on the north side, providing access to the spring at the base of the well-house. At road level, there is a timber-framed shelter with a gabled plain tile roof that houses an iron pump, which was installed to raise water from the spring to the road. A wrought iron gate leads to the road. Inside, there is a tie-beam dated 1898. Additionally, there is a ragstone retaining wall that rises about one metre above road level, extending approximately 39 metres to the north and 26 metres to the south.

Local climate

St Ethelburga's Well and Wall to North and South receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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