The Bidwell is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Well-house.
The Bidwell
- WRENN ID
- steep-spire-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Well-house
- Address
- The Bidwell, Botusfleming
- OS grid reference
- SX 405 613
- Coordinates
- 50.43006, -4.24633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bidwell is a holy well-house located in Botus Fleming, likely dating from the late 15th century and repaired in the 20th century. It is constructed from granite and slatestone rubble with a stone roof. The building has a small rectangular plan, built into the bank at the rear, with gable ends at both the front and rear.
The front features a 4-centred arched doorway, which has chamfered granite jambs and arch. There is a 19th-century wrought iron gate across the doorway, adorned with trefoil finials on the shafts. The front gable has raised coped verges, and there are no windows present.
Inside, there is a slate floor and a plastered vaulted roof. The rear of the building includes an image niche with a segmental head, housing a 19th-century statue of the Virgin. The Bidwell is marked on the 1907 Ordnance Survey.
Local climate
The Bidwell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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