Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park at Ngr So 840 156 is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1998. Well house.
Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park at Ngr So 840 156
- WRENN ID
- stranded-plinth-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1998
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park at Ngr So 840 156, Reservoir Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 840 156
- Coordinates
- 51.8389, -2.2336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Well House in Robins Wood Hill Country Park at Ngr So 840 156 receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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