St Nun's Well at Approx 220 Metres North-West of Rosteague House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Well.

St Nun's Well at Approx 220 Metres North-West of Rosteague House

WRENN ID
idle-gallery-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1985
Type
Well
OS grid reference
SW 871 336
Coordinates
50.16458, -4.98112
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Nun's Well, located approximately 220 meters north-west of Rosteague House, is a well head that may have been a holy well. It likely has a medieval core and features a reused 16th to 17th century doorway lintel. The structure is made of slatestone rubble with a granite doorway, and it has a semi-circular domed inner structure with a corbelled roof. The doorway on the south-west side has rough granite jambs and a nearly four-centred arch with a chamfered lintel and spandrel recesses. A steep, wide, stepped path known as Donkey Steps leads from the well to the house.

Local climate

St Nun's Well at Approx 220 Metres North-West of Rosteague House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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