Arch Containing Spring and Washing Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Spring and washing place.

Arch Containing Spring and Washing Place

WRENN ID
worn-chimney-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1985
Type
Spring and washing place
Address
Arch Containing Spring and Washing Place, North Street, Wincanton
OS grid reference
ST 710 288
Coordinates
51.05863, -2.414
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The arch containing a spring and washing place is a structure of uncertain date, but it was set in an arch around 1855. It is constructed from local lias stone that is squared and boasted, with Doulting ashlar dressing. The large segmental arch features an interior divided into two arched recesses, each with plain bracketed cornices at the top of the facade wall. The side walls project from each side of the arch for about one metre before rounding off to form normal boundary walls. Inside the archway, there is a cast iron water spout and drain at the center, and in the left recess, there is a large stone sink. This structure was presumably built by the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway between 1855 and 1966, likely because the original spring was either buried or threatened by the new railway embankment.

Local climate

Arch Containing Spring and Washing Place receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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