Jellicoe watercourse, including associated retaining wall, viewing platforms, railings and planters at former Cadbury factory

This is a cascade water feature with an associated retaining wall, viewing platforms, railings, and planters, constructed in 1952 by Geoffrey Jellicoe as part of the former Cadbury factory. The watercourse is situated on the western edge of the site, alongside Pasture Road, which provides access to Moreton railway station.

The water feature has a linear design, running north-west to south-east for approximately 190 metres, with a short arm extending north-east towards the north end. It consists of ten pools that descend in steps from the railway station to the site entrance. Originally, a pump in the gatehouse circulated water creating a cascade alongside the roadway, though at the time of inspection in 2019 the pump was out of use and the lower pools were overgrown with bulrushes and reeds. The pools are made of concrete laid over puddled clay, and each has an angled eastern side that tapers towards the south, creating an illusion of greater distance when viewed from either end. Planters are incorporated in the north corners of all pools except the one closest to the gatehouse. Each pool originally had a water depth of roughly two feet and is fitted with a standpipe alongside each low concrete weir. These weirs feature wave-shaped (cyma) moulding on their north-west sides to simulate a more substantial flow of water.

A brick retaining wall runs along the west side of the watercourse, rising above Pasture Road as a parapet with angled concrete copings and a wrought-iron handrail. The wall steps down in places and includes four concrete viewing platforms that project out over the pools, with angled sides mirroring those of the pools themselves. These platforms are paved with concrete and have wrought-iron balustrades; the southernmost platform’s balustrade was removed for repairs in 2019 and the platform was protected by steel palisade fencing. At the southern end, the watercourse and wall curve around the eastern side of a turning circle associated with the railway station's Liverpool platform entrance. At the northern end, the watercourse turns north-eastwards for approximately 13 metres towards the gatehouse. The brick retaining wall here has flat copings, including a higher section near the site entrance serving as a windbreak, and a lower section shaped like rectangular bastions connecting to the gatehouse. The gatehouse itself is not considered to be of special interest and is excluded from this listing.