The Queen's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Well house. 1 related planning application.
The Queen's Well
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rubblework-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- The Queen's Well, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 330
- Coordinates
- 51.06833, 0.57665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Well is a well house located in Benenden, dated 1887 and built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It features a wooden structure set on a stone base with a tiled roof. The square well house has four chamfered corner posts resting on moulded stone padstones, with elaborately chamfered tension braces connecting to the wall plate and corners of the roof. The hipped slate roof includes some bands of curved tiles and is topped with a wooden finial. There are seats on two sides of the well house. Inside, there is an 8-foot high wooden pump that is battered at the base and chamfered with run-out stops; the pump handle was missing at the time of the survey, and the lead spout was partly missing as well. Additionally, there is a stone trough with an iron drain and a shield displaying the name and date. The inscription reads: "Honour the King. The Queen's Well, Fear God. 1837. Jubilee. 1887."
Local climate
The Queen's Well 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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