Old Well House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1985. House.
Old Well House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pediment-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Well House, Main Street, Overthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 482 409
- Coordinates
- 52.06526, -1.29719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Well House is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, topped with an artificial stone slate roof, and features brick and stone stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and consists of two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with three bays.
The doorway is located to the left of centre and has a wooden lintel, a 19th-century half-glazed door, and a flat wooden hood supported by scroll brackets. To the left of the doorway is a three-light casement window with a wooden lintel, and to the right, there is a two-light casement window with a wooden lintel. The right bay contains another two-light casement window, which has a wooden mullion and transom along with a wooden lintel. On the first floor, all windows are two-light casements with wooden lintels. There is a blocked cellar window on the right side featuring three lights with stone mullions and a stone hood, as well as a similar one-light window in the attic.
At the rear, there is a projecting wing dating from the 17th to 18th century, made from similar materials, which is two storeys high and has two bays, including a casement window with a wooden lintel. The interior was remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
Old Well House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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