Pond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Fountain.

Pond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art Gallery

WRENN ID
deep-string-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1965
Type
Fountain
Address
Pond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art Gallery, the Diamond
OS grid reference
SJ 336 846
Coordinates
53.35491, -2.99885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pond and fountain located to the south of the Lady Lever Art Gallery were likely created around 1913, with the fountain itself designed in 1946 by Sir Charles Wheeler. The structure is made of stone and features a low wall surrounding a shallow pond. The front of the pond curves outward before sweeping back in to a higher wall at the rear, which serves as a seat facing south. At the center of the pond is a bronze fountain mounted on a round base, depicting a man and a boy with flipper feet riding a heraldic sea horse, flanked by dolphins.

Local climate

Pond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art Gallery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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