Conduit Head (Spring) is a Grade I listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. A C14 Spring head.
Conduit Head (Spring)
- WRENN ID
- stark-mantel-flax
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Spring head
- Period
- C14
- Address
- Conduit Head (Spring), Westbury Road, Edington
- OS grid reference
- ST 924 529
- Coordinates
- 51.27593, -2.10975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The conduit head, or spring, located off the north side of Westbury Road in Edington, dates back to the 14th century and was built to supply water to the Priory of Bonshommes. It is constructed from rubble stone and features a gabled front with a coped verge, a diagonal buttress on the left, and a central square-headed doorway. Inside, there are stone troughs and a stone roof supported by two chamfered stone ribs. This site is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, Wiltshire No 295.
Local climate
Conduit Head (Spring) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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