Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Fountain.
Fountain
- WRENN ID
- drifting-quartz-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain, Laura Place
- OS grid reference
- ST 753 650
- Coordinates
- 51.38366, -2.35632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The fountain located in Laura Place was built in 1877 and reconstructed in 1977, with only the basin remaining from the original design. It was created by AS Goodridge and is made of limestone. The fountain has a square plan with segmental bays on each side, nearly forming a circle. The outer bowl features rounded coping and a moulded plinth with small colonnettes at the corners. The center consists of a pedestal with a shallow, straight-sided bowl that has chutes extending toward the corners, leading to a cylindrical shaft and a smaller bowl topped with a 20th-century lead ball finial, which replaced the original gadrooned urn. The fountain was originally erected to commemorate the centenary of the Bath and Western Counties Agricultural Society, but its design has changed significantly since then. The reconstruction in 1977 was intended to mark its bicentenary. Historically, the center of Laura Place was proposed as a site for a column to honor Nelson in 1805 and for a "Reform pillar" designed by HE Goodridge in 1832, reflecting the Whig sympathies of the Pulteney family.
Local climate
Fountain receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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