Wash Basin is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1998. Wash basin.
Wash Basin
- WRENN ID
- woven-turret-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1998
- Type
- Wash basin
- Address
- Wash Basin, Buckland Dinham
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 508
- Coordinates
- 51.25661, -2.35086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wash basin, or laver, was built in 1876 and is made of roughly dressed stone. It features a large round arch niche in the wall, which is adorned with roughly dressed voussoirs and a keystone. The keystone is carved with a monogram "HC" and the date 1876, set within an elongated quatrefoil that has a small Maltese cross at the top. Inside the niche, there is a semi-circular stone basin supported by rough stone corbels, with a water supply sourced from a pool located behind it. This wash basin was funded by the vicar, Reverend Clutterbuck, for the villagers to wash their clothes.
Local climate
Wash Basin receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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