Wellhead on Great Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Sculptural feature.

Wellhead on Great Terrace

WRENN ID
iron-quartz-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1988
Type
Sculptural feature
Address
Wellhead on Great Terrace, Iford, Westwood
OS grid reference
ST 800 589
Coordinates
51.32938, -2.28757
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wellhead on the Great Terrace is located at the west end of the terrace. It features a sixth-century Byzantine capital from near Ravenna, which was repurposed by Peto as a mock wellhead and installed around 1907. The well bucket is suspended from a spiral fluted Corinthian Roman column, topped with a French stone lion. This wellhead is one of several sculptural elements on the Great Terrace, all brought to the site by Peto.

Local climate

Wellhead on Great Terrace receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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