FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN

FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN, HOUNDGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121277
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN
Statutory Address:: FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN, HOUNDGATE

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Date:: 1999-08-15
Reference:: IOE01/00445/26
Rights:: © Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121277
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN, HOUNDGATE

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:: FOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST CORNER OF PUBLIC GARDEN, HOUNDGATE

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28897 14344

Details

HOUNDGATE 1. (North Side) 5195 Fountain in south-east corner of Public Garden NZ 2814 SE 8/39

II

2. Mid C19. Shallow terra-cotta bowl, with guilloche moulding below a scalloped run and lotus leaf pattern on underside, rests on a stem with acanthus leaf moulding. This is supported on a carved octagonal stone base of more modern appearance, and the whole is set in a modern square pool with brick side walls. Plaque on west side: "This fountain was erected in 1858 at the top of Tubwell Row and later moved to Green Park. It was moved to the present site in 1970 as a gift from the North of England Newspapers to mark the centenary of the Northern Echo first published in Darlington on first January 1870".

Listing NGR: NZ2889714344

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Legacy System number:: 110658
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.