The Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. House.
The Well House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-hammer-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Well House, 35, High Street, Buckingham, MK18 1NU
- OS grid reference
- SP 696 341
- Coordinates
- 52.00132, -0.98625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Well House is a house located on High Street in Buckingham, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The exterior is rendered and features incised masonry patterns, a plain-tile roof, and a brick rear lateral stack with a pair of diagonal brick flues. The house has a two-unit, through-passage plan.
The central entrance consists of a 20th-century, part-glazed door with a gabled hood, flanked by tripartite sash windows, all of which have moulded, rendered surrounds. The first floor features 9-pane, 19th-century horned sash windows with moulded wood surrounds. The ground floor slightly projects and has a moulded cornice. There are also a pair of flat-roofed dormer windows in the roof.
Inside, the house includes ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a scoop stop-chamfered bressumer. The roof structure consists of collar trusses and two tiers of purlins. At the rear, there is a timber-framed wing that was formerly a three-bay barn, which includes tie beams, queen posts, and collars to the principals, along with one tier of purlins.
Local climate
The Well House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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