The Well House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Well House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-trefoil-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Well House, Coles Lane, Chalgrove, OX44 7SS
- OS grid reference
- SU 634 970
- Coordinates
- 51.669, -1.08338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House is a late 17th-century house located on Coles Lane in Chalgrove, which also includes No. 79 High Street on the north side. The building features small timber framing, a half-hipped and gabled old tile roof, and a brick ridge stack on the right. It has a two-unit plan, stands one storey high with an attic, and has a two-window range. The front includes a 20th-century door and casement windows, some of which contain 16th-century quarries. Inside, there are chamfered beams, an open fireplace, and winder stairs. The structure has jowled and braced posts supporting a two-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. There is also a panelled door leading to a bacon curing chamber in the right stack.
Local climate
The Well House 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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