Dragon Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Fountain.

Dragon Fountain

WRENN ID
noble-quartz-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Fountain
Address
Dragon Fountain, Southern Garden to Eaton Hall, Eaton and Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 413 605
Coordinates
53.13922, -2.87758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dragon Fountain is a fountain statuary dating from around 1896, created for the 1st Duke of Westminster and tentatively attributed to Edwin Lutyens. It features a stone dragon that carries a bowl on its back, with two intertwined dolphins positioned above the bowl. This fountain and its pool serve as the focal point of the south "Italian" garden. A photograph of the fountain was published in Country Life on April 20th, 1901.

Local climate

Dragon Fountain receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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