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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Well house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 09 SE PURTON STOKE COMMON LANE Purton Stoke
8/341 Salt's Hole
II
Salt spring well house, 1859. Brick, rendered and lined as ashlar above brick plinth. slate roof. Octagonal, with small side buttresses. Central door with 2-centred arch and trefoil headed windows either side, all with ashlar surrounds. Carved bargeboards with timber pendents at angles. Apex of roof has a turned wood finial. Interior has simple fireplace on back wall and plaster flat ceiling. To rear, two 2-light windows above ceiling. Well in centre with iron-bound stone capping. Inscription over door reads: THE ANCIENT /SALT'S HOLE/SULPHATED AND BROMO-IODATED/SALINE WATER/ANALYSED BY D VOELKER 1860. This building, and the adjoining Spa Cottage at Purton based on this saline spring rich in phosphate of lime. (Reference: Richardson, M S. The Storey of Purton, 1919).
Listing NGR: SU0842990608
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