Well House, Circa 5 Yards North of Harp Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. Well house.

Well House, Circa 5 Yards North of Harp Farmhouse

WRENN ID
third-basalt-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1984
Type
Well house
OS grid reference
TQ 774 599
Coordinates
51.31094, 0.54421
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a well house located approximately 5 yards north of Harp Farmhouse. The walls date from the 19th century or earlier, while the fittings are from the late 19th or 20th century, and the roof is from the 20th century. The structure is timber framed, weatherboarded under the eaves, with rendered breeze blocks below and a slate roof. It is a single-storey building that is three timber-framed bays long. There is a door to the right of the center on the south elevation. Inside, there is a deep well at the west end of the east bay, and most of the original fittings remain, except for the horse wheel, at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Well House, Circa 5 Yards North of Harp 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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