Dolphin Fountain to West of Harewood House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. Fountain.
Dolphin Fountain to West of Harewood House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-thatch-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- SE 311 446
- Coordinates
- 53.8968, -1.52805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolphin Fountain, located to the west of Harewood House, was built between 1847 and 1848. It was created during the same period as the work on the South Terrace by Sir Charles Barry and Nesfield for the 3rd Earl of Harewood. The fountain features a basin made of Rousham Hill stone from Oxfordshire, with a carved freestone sculpture. It has an octagonal shape with raised moulded edging and a finely-coursed stone basin. At the center, there is a drum that supports a sculpture of three dolphins, whose tails encircle a taller shell.
Local climate
Dolphin Fountain to West of Harewood House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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