Offley Well Head
Offley Well Head, Manor Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028001
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Offley Well Head
- Statutory Address:
- Offley Well Head, Manor Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028001
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Offley Well Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- Offley Well Head, Manor Road
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Offley Well Head, Manor Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Madeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 77178 43933
Details
SJ 74 SE
5/54
MADELEY C.P.
MANOR ROAD (off west side)
Offley Well Head
17/11/66
II
Fountain head, basin, platform and wrought iron gates. 1850 (see partly illegible inscription panel on east side). Yellow and grey limestone ashlar. In a Jacobean style inspired perhaps by late-antique funerary monuments in the Middle East.
Fountain head: octagonal in section on plinth with lead spouts (two now missing) and carved shell-like basins on north, south and east sides; higher door on west gives access to inside. Panels with strapwork motifs on each of the eight sides; moulded cornice with ornamental crested parapet above; on top, a square panelled head with broken segmental pediments and sundial on north-east side.
The fountain stands in a tile-floored basin with red brick walls and stone capping, from which are moulded triangular projections. This in turn stands on a platform with an open strapwork balustrade on three sides and a higher quadrant sandstone wall to rear (west); access to the platform is by way of short flights of steps (with slate benches on either side) on the north and south sides, at the bottom of which are wrought iron gates.
The fountain was erected by Annabel Hungerford in memory of her aunt in 1850, at which time the allotments (which still surround it) were created and given to the poor of the parish. The structure is overgrown and in poor condition owing to neglect at the time of re-survey (1984).
Listing NGR: SJ7717843933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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