Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1994. Wellhouse.
Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-casement-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1994
- Type
- Wellhouse
- Address
- Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage, the Hamlet, Kidmore End
- OS grid reference
- SU 691 802
- Coordinates
- 51.51667, -1.00529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wellhouse and winding gear, built around the mid to late 19th century. The structure is square in shape and features low walls made of red brick and flint panels, decorated with brick diaperwork. Brick buttresses at the corners support thin brick piers that hold up a pyramidal roof, which is covered in plain tiles and bands of scalloped tiles. At the top of the roof, there is a wooden spike finial, and wrought-iron fleur-de-lis adorn the corners. The sides of the wellhouse are open above the low walls; the southwest side has an iron grille, while the southeast side is completely open, providing access to the well. The iron winding gear remains intact and is mounted on a wooden frame. An inscription on the gear identifies the maker as R.J. and H. Wilders of Patent Wallingford, Berkshire. The well itself is 300 feet deep and is depicted on the 1873 Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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