The Corkscrew Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Fountain.
The Corkscrew Fountain
- WRENN ID
- lesser-sill-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- The Corkscrew Fountain, Farley
- OS grid reference
- SK 076 433
- Coordinates
- 52.98747, -1.88687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corkscrew Fountain is an early 19th-century fountain made of ashlar stone. It features a circular plan with four tiers of shelves and short, spiral fluted pillars that decrease in size as they rise. This fountain is an important element of the garden layout at Alton Towers, which is recognized as Grade I on the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Garden Register.
Local climate
The Corkscrew Fountain receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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