Central Salmon Well is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 April 1998. Well.

Central Salmon Well

WRENN ID
tired-barrel-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 April 1998
Type
Well
Address
Central Salmon Well, Penllyn, Cowbridge
OS grid reference
SS 972 766
Coordinates
51.4798, -3.48118
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Central Salmon Well is a rectangular well that is covered by a rubble hut approximately 2 meters high. It is set into a rising bank at the rear. To the left, there is a flight of stone steps that were added as part of the Millennium repairs. The well has an outflow that leads into a stone-walled channel.

Local climate

Central Salmon Well sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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