Wellhead Set in Wall Fronting Oval Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South West is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. Wellhead.
Wellhead Set in Wall Fronting Oval Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South West
- WRENN ID
- western-frieze-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Wellhead
- OS grid reference
- SS 950 314
- Coordinates
- 51.07318, -3.49887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wellhead, dated 1870, is constructed from random rubble local stone with dressed stone voussoirs and features a blue lias tablet. It has a semi-circular headed niche for the well head, with a rectangular tablet set above the voussoirs. A tap is set into the niche, which has a horseshoe-shaped cover over the well. The jambs are made of random rubble, and there is similar rubble stone flanking the tablet, which is inscribed with a partially illegible quote: "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall not thirst; that the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of ----- bringing ----- Everlasting life. September 29 1870." The tap and well are functional and were in good condition at the time of the survey in May 1985. The wall is made of random rubble local stone with hit and miss coping and fronts Oval Cottage and the adjoining cottage, featuring two gateway openings.
Local climate
Wellhead Set in Wall Fronting Oval Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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