Walls Enclosing Italian Garden Together with Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1978. Garden wall and fountain.

Walls Enclosing Italian Garden Together with Fountain

WRENN ID
buried-solder-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1978
Type
Garden wall and fountain
Address
Walls Enclosing Italian Garden Together with Fountain, Wilton
OS grid reference
SU 098 309
Coordinates
51.07816, -1.8608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing the Italian Garden, along with a fountain, date from around 1825 to 1850. The low dwarf wall surrounds three sides of the garden and features alternating lead statues and vases on pedestals. The west end is apsed and includes a central entrance. In front of the loggia, there are steps with scrolls leading to the piers. A significant amount of statuary was provided by the firm of Austen & Seeley between 1845 and 1851, including accurate copies of 17th and 18th century sculptures, particularly lead groups of putti that are replicas of those made by Nost in the early 18th century. At the center of the garden stands a fine Renaissance fountain, which has three stages and is set in a circular moulded basin.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing Italian Garden Together with Fountain receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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