Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Boundary wall and wellhouse.
Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School
- WRENN ID
- frozen-mantel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Boundary wall and wellhouse
- Address
- Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School, Buckland St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- ST 270 133
- Coordinates
- 50.9152, -3.03909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wellhouse and boundary walls to the school in Buckland St Mary, dated 1876, are constructed from random rubble chert stone with Ham stone quoins and coping, topped with a stone slate roof. The wellhouse is a single-storey structure with one bay, set gable end on, featuring a date stone in the apex and a moulded semi-circular headed opening with a hoodmould and face terminals. It has a splayed base and a brick barrel vault roof. Above an octagonal stone with a central tap and a drain below, there is a recessed rectangular plaque without an inscription.
To the left of the wellhouse is a drinking trough made of buff bricks with blue glazed brick coping. The boundary walls, which incorporate the rear wall of the wellhouse, extend about 60 meters in length and stand one meter high. They feature hit-and-miss coping and moulded coping where they rise to the gatepiers. The gatepiers have gabled tops, quoins, a fillet to the arris, and a chamfered plinth. The tap is likely a 20th-century replacement of the original, more elaborate structure.
Local climate
Wellhouse and Boundary Walls to School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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