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Description: Terrace retaining wall & pool with fountain to east of Broadfold

Address: Terrace Retaining Wall & Pool Dean House Lane Luddenden Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Dean House Lane (west side, off), Luddenden

Full description:
Terrace retaining wall with balustrade and pool with fountain. Probably 1877 for John Murgatroyd (as Broadfold (q.v.)). Rock-faced stone retaining wall, otherwise ashlar. Wall: tall, bowed at centre, formed of recessed panels with modillion cornice and flanking pilasters which rise into square piers in the balustrade. Balustrade is low with vase balusters; cornice breaks forward under square capstones above piers. Circular pool, positioned in bow of wall, has raised corniced rim with scallop shell corbels. In centre is fountain with stepped base and urn.