St Wilfrid's Well, and flanking gates is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1991. Well.
St Wilfrid's Well, and flanking gates
- WRENN ID
- veiled-bracket-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1991
- Type
- Well
- Address
- St Wilfrid's Well, and flanking gates, Skell Bank, Ripon
- OS grid reference
- SE 308 710
- Coordinates
- 54.13424, -1.52908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Wilfrid's Well, built in 1762 for W Richardson MD, is a well head with a trough and flanking gates. The structure is made of ashlar stone. It features a low stone wall with a central four-centred arch that contains an ashlar water spout, positioned above a projecting ashlar trough. The wall is topped with ashlar coping. On either side of the well, there are pairs of square gate piers that have chamfered sides and round-headed caps.
Local climate
St Wilfrid's Well, and flanking gates receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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