St Keyne'S Well And Cross To South East

The building comprises a 16th-century well house, rebuilt in July 1936 by the Liskeard Old Cornwall Society, alongside a cross situated directly opposite the well opening. Constructed from granite ashlar, the well house has a gabled roof made of large granite blocks and a rectangular plan. A round, chamfered granite arch with pyramid stops to the jambs frames the well opening in the front gable end; it provides access to a rectangular well shaft. The well house is set within a low stone rubble retaining wall.

The site is linked to a legend described in a poem by Robert Southey, relating to a race between husbands and wives to the well following a wedding service, where the first to drink from the well would become "master for life." The poem also references several significant trees, originally thought to have grown from a single root planted by St Keyne; these were replaced in 1703 by plantings from Mr Rashleigh of Menabilly and were subsequently decayed and lost when the lane was widened, leading to the well’s 1936 rebuilding. Illustrations of the unrestored well and a related ballad were published in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1799 and 1822.

A photographic illustration in the National Monuments Record depicts the well-house arch as a pointed granite arch with an ovolo moulded arch and jambs. Opposite the well, a relocated granite cross bears an alisee patee cross and a carved semi-circular panel below, which was moved to its present position in 1951.