Salt's Hole is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. A C19 Well house.
Salt's Hole
- WRENN ID
- fading-passage-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Salt's Hole, Stoke Common Lane, Purton
- OS grid reference
- SU 084 906
- Coordinates
- 51.61424, -1.87965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Salt's Hole is a salt spring well house built in 1859. It is constructed of brick, rendered and lined to resemble ashlar above a brick plinth, and features a slate roof. The building is octagonal in shape and has small side buttresses. The central door has a two-centred arch, with trefoil-headed windows on either side, all framed with ashlar surrounds. The bargeboards are intricately carved and have timber pendents at the angles. At the apex of the roof, there is a turned wood finial. Inside, there is a simple fireplace on the back wall and a flat plaster ceiling. At the rear, there are two 2-light windows located above the ceiling. The well is situated in the center and is capped with iron-bound stone. An inscription above the door reads: "THE ANCIENT /SALT'S HOLE/SULPHATED AND BROMO-IODATED/SALINE WATER/ANALYSED BY D VOELKER 1860." This building, along with the adjoining Spa Cottage in Purton, is based on the saline spring that is rich in phosphate of lime.
Local climate
Salt's Hole receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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