Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. Ornamental fountain.
Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pinnacle-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- Ornamental fountain
- Address
- Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings, the Green, Edensor, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 251 699
- Coordinates
- 53.22593, -1.62513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ornamental fountain, attached wall, and railings were designed in 1840 by John Robertson in a Norman style. Constructed from coursed squared sandstone and ashlar, the fountain is integrated into a bank, serving as a retaining wall. The north elevation features a central projecting block with pseudo machicolation and a moulded parapet. There is a blind round arch resembling a Norman doorway, which consists of three stepped orders, a chamfered impost band, and zigzag detailing on the inner order, with moulded corbels on the outer order and a chamfered hoodmould. Inside the arch, the fountain spout is adorned with a relief of a wild man, and it has a moulded semi-circular water basin.
To the right, there is a wall with a parapet and a corbelled-out square turret topped with a pyramid cap. On the left, a square tower-like bay features two blind Caernarvon arched windows. Above the central feature is a square turret with blind Caernarvon-arched windows, flanked by paired pilaster strips and topped with a pyramid roof. The walls on either side are coped, and to the north, low walls topped with railings and square angle piers with pyramid caps enclose a garden. This structure was built as part of the picturesque model village created by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Local climate
Ornamental Fountain Attached Wall and Railings receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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