Description

LEATHERHEAD HEADLEY ROAD
TQ/15/NE (north side)
3/139

23.11.73 Well-house attached to south-east
corner of Highlands Farmhouse

GV II

Well-house, now store. c.1800, slightly altered. Timber frame on a brick plinth,
with weatherboard cladding (part tarred and part painted white), and red tile
roof. It has a tall rectangular wing (housing the well) projected from a lower
octagonal horse-gin winding house; this has opposed doorways in the sides next to
the wing, a very small window in each of the adjoining sides, and an octagonal
pyramidal roof; the wing has a tall 4-pane fixed window in the side, a 6-pane
fixed window in the west end, and the roof hipped at this end. Interior: the
winding house has an arch-braced queen-post roof truss with an iron bracket
attached to the centre of the tie-beam (for the former winding shaft), and
radiating raked struts to the rafters; and a wooden partition to the wing with 3
doorways (but the well is now concealed).

Listing NGR: TQ1851655907

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581568

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)