Well House In Robins Wood Hill Country Park At Ngr So 840 156

The Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park is a structure that serves as a well head or cistern, built above a spring that once supplied water to the nearby Well Cross. This building likely dates from the 12th century or possibly the 13th century, coinciding with the period of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter.

Constructed from dressed oolitic limestone slabs secured with iron cramps, the Well House has a low rectangular shape. It features long slabs on each side and a slab infilling the north end, all supporting a cover or roof slab that is approximately 2 meters long and 23 centimeters thick. This roof oversails the open south end, which is protected by three vertical bars set between the roof slab and a stone sill at ground level. The roof slab has low pitched slopes on either side of a central longitudinal ridge. It is believed that the wall slabs are positioned above a brick pit about 1 meter deep, which allows the spring to feed into the structure through an 8-centimeter pipe.