Bright Well in the Garden at Number 24 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. A Post-Medieval Well house.
Bright Well in the Garden at Number 24
- WRENN ID
- blind-corner-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- Well house
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Bright Well in the Garden at Number 24, Green Lane, Burnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 936 828
- Coordinates
- 51.53698, -0.65174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bright Well in the garden at Number 24 is a well house dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of old red brick and features a handmade tile roof with gable ends. The small structure measures approximately 6 feet by 6 feet. It has a board door fitted with large wrought iron hinges and wooden lintels. The well may have been relined above the water line in the 19th century. This well is known to have existed since the Middle Ages but dried out during the drought of 1788.
Local climate
Bright Well in the Garden at Number 24 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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