Parford Well is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Well house.
Parford Well
- WRENN ID
- spare-cupola-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Well house
- Address
- Parford Well, Drewsteignton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 712 896
- Coordinates
- 50.69263, -3.82436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parford Well is a well house dated 1872, constructed from granite ashlar. It has a square plan and features a low-pitched pyramid roof, facing southeast onto the road. The front of the building includes a doorway with a two-centred arch, which holds a cast iron door adorned with ornate strap hinges and a bolt. Above the arch, there is a recessed Maltese cross, and further up, an inscription in plain upper and lower case lettering states that the well house was "free to villagers of Sandypark for domestic purposes," along with the date 1872 and the initials WRB.
Local climate
Parford Well receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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