Waterwheel, 25 Metres North of Whitcombe Farmhouse (Not Listed) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Waterwheel.
Waterwheel, 25 Metres North of Whitcombe Farmhouse (Not Listed)
- WRENN ID
- scattered-roof-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Waterwheel
- OS grid reference
- ST 633 238
- Coordinates
- 51.01265, -2.52318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The waterwheel, located 25 metres north of Whitcombe Farmhouse, dates from the 19th century. It features a cast iron construction with a rubble stone surrounding wall. The wheel has an overshot design and measures 7.4 metres in diameter, with a galvanised tank above it supported by a cast iron column. While the wheel is mostly intact, some buckets are missing. It is believed to have been made by a firm from Westbury, Wiltshire, and was last used in 1965. The feed stream has since become silted up. The waterwheel was used to drive machinery in the barn immediately to the north, although that machinery has been removed and significantly altered, making it of little interest. It is presumed that the waterwheel was installed by the Portman Estate, the former owners of the property.
Local climate
Waterwheel, 25 Metres North of Whitcombe Farmhouse (Not Listed) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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