Well House Immediately North West of Start Point Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Well house.
Well House Immediately North West of Start Point Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-pewter-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Well House Immediately North West of Start Point Lighthouse, Stokenham
- OS grid reference
- SX 829 371
- Coordinates
- 50.22255, -3.64256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House, located immediately northwest of Start Point Lighthouse, dates from around 1836 and is likely designed by James Walker, the engineer responsible for the lighthouse. This small, single-storey building has a rectangular plan and features a rendered and painted stone exterior with a gable-ended roof covered in large slate slabs.
The east end has a wide doorway with double plank doors, while the corners, doorway, and window openings are stop-chamfered. On the north side, there is a small 19th-century 16-pane sash window with a hood mould and a large sill. The west end of the building is blind. The catchment area above to the west, which was once slate-covered, supplied water to the well. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Well House Immediately North West of Start Point Lighthouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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