Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Merchant's house.

Well House

WRENN ID
steep-jamb-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1974
Type
Merchant's house
Address
Well House, 31 and 33, Fore Street, Fowey, PL23 1AH
OS grid reference
SX 126 517
Coordinates
50.3361, -4.63429
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Well House is a merchant's house, likely from the 16th century, with its front remodeled in the mid-19th century. It features a painted rubble front with shallow segmental arches over the openings and a slate roof. The building has a U-shaped plan that includes rear wings, with the left-hand wing being deeper.

The exterior is three storeys high and has a two-window range. The first floor has mid-19th century 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the upper floor features later 4-pane horned sashes. The ground floor has three doorways located at the far left, far right, and to the right of center, with old panelled and glazed doors. There is also a small two-light casement window beneath the left-hand windows.

Inside, the house includes a 16th-century coffered ceiling with heavy moulded oak beams in the first-floor chamber, and chamfered cross beams on the ground floor. Additionally, built into the retaining wall of the old quarried face at the rear is a well house that features a 16th or 17th-century moulded basket-arched doorway.

Local climate

Well House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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