Barrans Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Barrans Fountain
- WRENN ID
- secret-wicket-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Barrans Fountain, Roundhay Park, LS8 2JJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 333 379
- Coordinates
- 53.83702, -1.49467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barran's Fountain is a drinking fountain dated 1882, located in Roundhay Park, Leeds. It is designed in the form of a Classical rotunda made of ashlar stone. The structure features eight Corinthian columns on pedestals that support an entablature topped with a stone dome. Between the columns are round-headed shell niches that hold pink marble gadrooned fountain bowls facing outward, while fluted bowls are set in moulded niches on the inside. An inscription on the inner face of the entablature notes that the fountain was presented to the Borough of Leeds by John Barran MP.
Local climate
Barrans Fountain receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings