Greys Court, Well House is a Grade I listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. A C16 Well house.
Greys Court, Well House
- WRENN ID
- third-kitchen-plover
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Greys Court, Well House, Rotherfield Greys
- OS grid reference
- SU 724 833
- Coordinates
- 51.54462, -0.95637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greys Court, Well House is a well house dating from the 16th century. It is constructed of red brick with flared headers arranged in a diaper pattern and features a plain old tile roof. The building has a single-cell plan and is two storeys high with a two-bay range. There is a plank door on the left and a wheel pivot housing on the right. The centre of the first floor has a three-light brick mullioned opening. At the rear, there is an outshut. Inside, the structure retains a 16th-century timber frame and contains a donkey wheel with an approximate diameter of six metres. The well shaft, likely dug in the 14th century, is about 55 metres deep.
Local climate
Greys Court, 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 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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