Public Shelter and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Public shelter.
Public Shelter and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- worn-span-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Public shelter
- Address
- Public Shelter and Attached Wall, Woodlands End, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 730 490
- Coordinates
- 51.23959, -2.38788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This public shelter, which was formerly a well, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1908 as a memorial to Mark Horner for the Horner family. It is built from squared Doulting rubble with some ashlar and features a three-sided open structure topped with a pyramidal stone tile roof supported by three piers. On the east side, there is a wall with a stone bench, plain coping, and lettering by Eric Gill that reads: "For the use of Mells Village In The Memory of Mark Horner 1908." The floor consists of flagstones with a central section of cobbles arranged in a three-sided pattern, and there is a flight of stone steps to the west. The roof is supported by an elaborate oak king post construction.
Local climate
Public Shelter and Attached Wall receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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