The Old Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House.
The Old Well House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-newel-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Well House, Rough Street, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 869 684
- Coordinates
- 51.41459, -2.18926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Well House is a house that underwent 18th century remodelling of a 17th century building. It is constructed of rubble stone, squared and coursed at the front, featuring moulded coped gables and a stone-tiled roof. The house has two storeys, with a front that includes a five-window range of long recessed ovolo-moulded two-light windows, while the first floor has a blank centre. There are raised quoins and dripcourses on both floors, with the lower dripcourse forming a Tudor-arched hood over a plain central doorcase. Voussoirs are present above the ground floor windows, positioned above the dripcourse.
On the left side, there is a 19th century single-storey addition that contains a two-light mullion window. The rear of the main range features a first-floor three-light ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould. The rear wing has a chamfered doorcase on the north side, a 20th century window above, and a curved stair projection to the right. The south side has a four-light first-floor recessed ovolo-moulded window and a four-light ground floor flush chamfered mullion window. Inside, there is a flush Tudor-arched fireplace located in the ground floor north room of the main range.
Local climate
The Old Well House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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