Holy Well is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1960. Holy well.
Holy Well
- WRENN ID
- final-corridor-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1960
- Type
- Holy well
- Address
- Holy Well, Laneast
- OS grid reference
- SX 229 838
- Coordinates
- 50.62768, -4.50518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy well, dating from around the 15th century. It is constructed of square slatestone rubble with granite dressings and features a stone roof. The building is a small rectangular well house with the sink located inside.
The exterior is single storey and sits on a chamfered plinth. The front gable end has a chamfered granite three-centred arched doorway, which includes a granite cill and a 20th-century wooden gate. The doorway is recessed and topped with a flat stone lintel. The stone roof has a chamfered eaves cornice, and the upper part of the gable has been removed, resulting in a flat top.
Inside, there is a vaulted stone roof with a niche located at the rear right, and the sink occupies the entire floor area. This well is not scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Holy Well 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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