DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN

DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN, BUXTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268632
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address:: DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN, BUXTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268632
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN, BUXTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN, BUXTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 99581 56990

Details

LEEK

SJ95NE BUXTON ROAD 611-1/1/22 (South side) Drinking Water Fountain

II

Drinking water fountain. c1860, restored 1994. Ashlar. Central rectangular pillar with pedimented coping, incorporating niche with tap and marble projecting basin. Lettering over niche reads 'pro bono publico'. Lower flanking walls each side, with cast-iron overflow pipe to right. Cast-iron railing with scrollwork panels each side.

Listing NGR: SJ9958156990

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461597
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.