Butterwell in Roadside Bank Approximately 80 Metres East of Gidleigh Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Well.
Butterwell in Roadside Bank Approximately 80 Metres East of Gidleigh Barton
- WRENN ID
- carved-roof-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Well
- OS grid reference
- SX 670 884
- Coordinates
- 50.6804, -3.88266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butterwell is a spring well located in a roadside bank approximately 80 metres east of Gidleigh Barton. It likely dates from the 18th century and is constructed from roughly-shaped slabs of granite. The well has a roughly square plan over the spring and features a corbelled roof made of large granite slabs. There is also a low slab across the front of the well, which faces the road to the west.
Local climate
Butterwell in Roadside Bank Approximately 80 Metres East of Gidleigh Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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