Fountain in the Italian Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1988. Fountain.
Fountain in the Italian Garden
- WRENN ID
- tall-bastion-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1988
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain in the Italian Garden, Ancroft
- OS grid reference
- NU 040 436
- Coordinates
- 55.68675, -1.9374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The fountain in the Italian Garden is an early 20th-century structure built for Thomas Leyland. It is made of sandstone and features a round basin with low moulded walls. At the center of the basin is a fountain consisting of three stepped urns, with the middle urn having a gadrooned design. The fountain is currently used as a planter and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Fountain in the Italian Garden receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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