Location: in the front wall of Tyrol House, Wells Road, Malvern Wells, opposite the Abbey International College.
Description: a dressed stone niche with spout and basin, with a dog trough below.

This little roadside drinking fountain was probably put here in 19th century for the benefit of passers-by: tradesmen travelling to and from Malvern; schoolchildren and church-goers; delivery boys and shoppers; and dogs. In August 1887 wealthy J.P Walter Stewart Broadwood of Ferney, Malvern Wells, offered to provide a fountain for the use of the neighbourhood 'near the larch plantation on the hillside between the Wyche and Winds Point'.[1]

The stonework and blue bricks suggest that it was built some time between 1880 and 1905 and may have been provided by the occupants of Tyrol House. The water came either from a hillside spring or the grounds of Tyrol House and flowed through an iron pipe into the fountain. The drinking cup has gone but its chain and a little shelf where the cup rested is still there. An overflow took excess water to the dog trough. It has all been dry for many years but the basin is often decorated with flowers and heathers and the dog trough with leaves and rubbish.


Illustration:
1. Tyrol House Fountain.

Footnotes:
[1] MHC minutes, 8 August 1887

 

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