Fountain in Front of the Orangery at Longleat House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Fountain in Front of the Orangery at Longleat House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-corbel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Fountain in Front of the Orangery at Longleat House, Horningsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 808 430
- Coordinates
- 51.18671, -2.27487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The fountain in front of the Orangery at Longleat House is an early 19th-century structure made of limestone. It features a circular pond with a moulded stone verge surrounding a shallow bowl that is lined with cobbles and tiles. At the center, there is a fountain in a scalloped bowl on a pedestal, which is surrounded by three cupids. The sculptor of the fountain is unknown. This fountain is part of a formal garden in front of the orangery, and the four urns nearby were included in a redesigned garden plan by Russell Page in the 1940s.
Local climate
Fountain in Front of the Orangery at Longleat House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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