Travellers Rest is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Grotto.
Travellers Rest
- WRENN ID
- hollow-turret-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Grotto
- Address
- Travellers Rest, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 140 648
- Coordinates
- 51.3713, -0.36306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers Rest, also known as Wolsey's Well, is a grotto built between 1730 and 1740. It is constructed from random flint and rubblestone set in mortar. The grotto features three arched seats at the angled front, with stone slabs serving as seats. Above the center arch is a square panel that has the letter "M" inscribed on it. This structure was erected by Henry Pelham, who was the younger brother of the Earl of Newcastle. It is referenced in Pevsner's "Buildings of England, Surrey" from 1971.
Local climate
Travellers Rest sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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