Gateshead, Durham Road, Whinney House Hospital, fountain

HER Number:
8285

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Durham Road, Whinney House Hospital, fountain

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Supply Site

Site Type: Specific:
Fountain

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Later C19 stone fountain in keeping with style of house. Octagonal basin whose dwarf walls have krater-shaped urns on plinths at each angle. In centre, a moulded octagonal plinth with small angles seated at four of the angles. Above a quadrooned moulding rises a taller central plinth water-carrier. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2553

Northing:
6043

Grid Reference:
NZ25536043

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/75; Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 44; Gateshead Council Local List X20/LLG/06; TWAS L/PA/1547 Landscape History: Whinney house, Low Fell, Gateshead, Paul Case, Gwyn Williams & Brendan Ferguson; A Guide to the Historic Parks and Gardens of Tyne and Wear, Fiona Green (1995);