Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Fountain
- WRENN ID
- sombre-footing-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1966
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain, Worsley Green, M28 2PA
- OS grid reference
- SD 749 003
- Coordinates
- 53.49902, -2.3785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain, built in 1905, made of brick with stone dressings. It features a central carved stone bowl on a scrolled pedestal, which stands on a platform of four steps. The fountain is surrounded by a brick superstructure that includes arched openings on each side, weathered diagonal buttresses, an entablature with debased triglyphs, a cornice, and a pierced parapet. It was erected by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere in memory of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater shortly after the removal of the former factory that stood on the site of the green. The fountain is located at the base of the former factory chimney and incorporates bricks from it. A long Latin inscription on one of the steps begins with: "I was a lofty column, where panting nostrils were made by the skill of the Cyclops, the glory of the smith."
Local climate
Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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