The Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Fountain.
The Fountain
- WRENN ID
- solemn-foundation-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- The Fountain, Fountain Square, Disley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 974 846
- Coordinates
- 53.35876, -2.0393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain is a structure dated 1834, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed from ashlar gritstone and sandstone. The fountain features a chamfered square plinth supporting a smaller chamfered square pillar. Each side of the pillar has semi-circular headed niches that contain cast-iron lion's head mask fountains, which pour water into semi-circular basins. The original capstone is a flat pyramid with a moulded cornice, topped by a plain urn. This urn has been raised on an additional sandstone block and moulded band, and now holds a triple cast-iron gas lantern, which has been converted to electric. An original inscription on the north-west face reads, "This fountain WAS ERECTED BY RICHARD and THOMAS ORFORD ESQ For the Use of the Inhabitants of Disley A.D. 1834," presented in a mix of plain and italic scripts.
Local climate
The Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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