Village Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1976. Well house. 1 related planning application.
Village Well House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-string-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1976
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Village Well House, Whitchurch Canonicorum, DT6 6RQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 395 953
- Coordinates
- 50.75486, -2.85776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Well House, dating from the 19th century, is located beside the entrance to Candida House in Whitchurch Canonicorum. It features rubble-stone walls with stone dressings. The entrance has a low, 2-centred arch with straight-chamfered jambs and a plank door. The structure is topped with pitched stone gable copings and a fleur-de-lis motif at the apex. Above the arch, there is a stone cross inscribed with the words "Watch and Pray."
Local climate
Village Well House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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