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A 2.5 m square stone rubble structure with a concrete roof, an arched granite doorway fitted with a wooden door and slate plaque with a coat of arms and date 1568. This this well house has been reconstructed in recent times but was originally built by John Fitz who was granted a lease in 1568 to "digge and make a trench any waie thorowe the garden as well as to laie therein pipes of tymbre,lydd or otherwise to carry water in the same from one fountene or spring lyinge and being in the close of the said John ffytz called the bought hayes" to provide water to a farm previously on this site( same man who is credited with Fitz's well at Okehampton). The area around here has been much developed ; at one time a town gas works and now houses, so that the rather fine well house is all that remains of a once important site. Listed in the Devon Sites and Monuments Register.
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