Wells Head is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 4 related planning applications.
Wells Head
- WRENN ID
- nether-grate-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wells Head, Newbury Road, East Hendred, OX12 8LG
- OS grid reference
- SU 459 883
- Coordinates
- 51.59232, -1.33761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wells Head is a 17th-century house located on the west side of Newbury Road in East Hendred. The building features a rendered plinth on the left and a painted brick plinth on the right. It has large timber framing with rendered infill, and some painted brick infill to the left of center. The roof is thatched and hipped to the left, with a brick stack at the right end and a ridge stack to the left of center. The house is two stories high and has a six-bay, three-window range. The central entrance has a 19th-century five-panel part-glazed door, sheltered by a rustic open gabled porch. All openings feature three-light casements with leaded lights, except for a two-light casement with leaded lights to the right of center. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wells Head 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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