St Petrocks Well and Garden Pond About 35 Metres South West of the Manor Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Wellhouse.

St Petrocks Well and Garden Pond About 35 Metres South West of the Manor Hotel

WRENN ID
stony-plinth-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Wellhouse
OS grid reference
SX 458 860
Coordinates
50.65344, -4.1818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Petrock's well and garden pond, located about 35 meters southwest of the Manor Hotel, is a wellhouse and garden pond built in the late 19th century, likely designed by Sabine Baring-Gould. The wellhouse is constructed from granite ashlar and features a garden pond with a stone border. It is a small rectangular structure topped with a corbelled granite roof that has gables at both ends. The wellhouse includes a chamfered round-headed doorway and a simple round-headed niche with a stone cross in the gable. Inside, there is an additional small niche on the left wall. The external niche originally held a statue of St Petrock. Baring-Gould, who renovated Lew House (now the Manor Hotel) in the late 19th century, may have been inspired to create the wellhouse due to the holy well located in the grounds of Morwenstow Vicarage, home to Reverend R.S. Hawker, whose biography Baring-Gould published in 1876. The rectangular fishpond is situated directly in front of the wellhouse.

Local climate

St Petrocks Well and Garden Pond About 35 Metres South West of the Manor Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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