Stately home rill and fountains
Client:
Grantley Hall
Sector:
Hotel & Leisure
Project Scope:
Fountains & Rill – Design, Engineering & Installation
Services Provided:
Rill design, octagonal pool fountain engineering, water treatment including chemical dosing, filtration.
Contract Value (£):
60K
Consultant:
Alastair Baldwin Associates
Contractor:
HACS
Challenge
The challenge was to create the water effects without the engineering behind them becoming part of the view.
The rill and fountains required pumps, filtration, water treatment, controls and interconnected pipework, all of which needed to remain accessible for operation and maintenance while being discreetly integrated into the landscape. The intention was that visitors would experience the water, movement and elegant brass fountain nozzles rather than the mechanics required to create them.
Solution
The approach was to break down all the elements of the design, analyse them and make them dissapear into the ground or water feature construction, and if not they were very discretely hidden within the water feature.
Careful choices of materials and colours ensured that visible elements within the octagonal pool blended into their surroundings, leaving the fountains and water as the visual focus.
Benefit
It added structure to the garden, but what we love about water features, they give movement, sound and capture light like no other.
Grantley Hall is a 17th century Grade II-listed mansion near Ripon, which is to be converted into one of the leading country house hotels in the UK. As part of the development, exquisite formal gardens are to be created with a Rill, pool and fountains.
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