Horse Wheel 5 Yards North of Wingfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1977. Water drawing apparatus.
Horse Wheel 5 Yards North of Wingfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-arch-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1977
- Type
- Water drawing apparatus
- OS grid reference
- TQ 952 551
- Coordinates
- 51.26222, 0.7978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The horse wheel, located 5 yards north of Wingfield Farmhouse, is a structure from the 18th century used for drawing water. It features a timber frame with weatherboarded housing and a corrugated iron roof, which is partly supported by a rear wall made of brick and flint. The design includes a horizontal beam on a single post at the rear and two posts at the front. Additionally, it has a winding drum, a horse beam, and a brake mounted on a central vertical post.
Local climate
Horse Wheel 5 Yards North of Wingfield Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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