St Nectan's Well is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Well.
St Nectan's Well
- WRENN ID
- tangled-merlon-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Well
- Address
- St Nectan's Well, Hartland
- OS grid reference
- SS 236 246
- Coordinates
- 50.99442, -4.51471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Nectan's Well is a holy well, likely dating from the late medieval period, although some reconstruction may have occurred. It features stone rubble walls and a gabled roof, with stone ashlar on the front wall. The structure has a small rectangular plan, with the entrance located on the east side. The front gable has raised stone coping and a chamfered cornice above a two-centred arch made of dressed stone voussoirs. Inside, there is a slate shelf that extends across the well just below the level of the wall plate.
Local climate
St Nectan's Well sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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