Village Well is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1990. Well. 1 related planning application.

Village Well

WRENN ID
gaunt-brass-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1990
Type
Well
Address
Village Well, the Street, Buscot, SN7 8BZ
OS grid reference
SU 231 975
Coordinates
51.6763, -1.66711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The village well in Buscot was built around 1897 by architects Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates for Alexander Henderson of Buscot Park. It has a square plan and features four corner stone columns that support gables on each side, each topped with a stone tiled roof. The face of each gable includes open vertical timbers and a carved tie beam. At the apex of the roof, there is a shaped lead finial. Each column has a moulded impost and chamfer at the outer corner, with a seat cut into its thickness on the inside. The well has a modern top on the original wood standpipe.

Local climate

Village Well receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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