The Old Derry Hill Well House

  The Well House at Old Derry Hill is a small circular timber frame structure incorporating a conical stone slate roof. 

It dates from the end of the 19th century and was built by the Poynder Family of Hartham Park Corsham to provide shelter for the well that once supplied water to the surrounding cottages.

The water was piped down Old Derry Hill to The Well House from a spring higher up.

 The Poynder family also supplied near identical well houses at Biddestone, Colerne, and Hilmarton.

The verse inside the house reads:
Here quench your thirst and make in me
An emblem of true charity,
Who why my Bounty bestow,
Am neither heard nor seen to flow.
Repaid by fresh supplies from Heaven,
For every cup of water give.

The Grade II listed building was adopted by Calne Without Parish Council in 2002. The well house was restored in 2002-2003.