Pool with Fountain in the Formal Garden South of Dawlish College (Mamhead House) is a Grade II* listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. Garden pool.
Pool with Fountain in the Formal Garden South of Dawlish College (Mamhead House)
- WRENN ID
- quartered-tower-gilt
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- Garden pool
- OS grid reference
- SX 930 810
- Coordinates
- 50.61919, -3.51335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pool with a fountain, located in the formal garden south of Dawlish College (formerly Mamhead House), was designed by Anthony Salvin between 1827 and 1833 for Sir R.W. Newman, Bt. It is constructed from Bathstone and marble. The pool has a round-lobed quatrefoil shape, featuring triangles between the lobes and moulded Bath stone walling. The central fountain has a pedestal with a moulded plinth, which is square in plan. This pedestal is intricately carved with a grotesque head of a Renaissance character that supports a stone dish. Water jets from a finely-carved white marble posy of flowers. This pool serves as the centerpiece of the formal garden and is depicted in one of Salvin's original drawings in the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection.
Local climate
Pool with Fountain in the Formal Garden South of Dawlish College (Mamhead House) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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