Challenge

Tills Innovations was tasked with creating water features for Grantley Hall luxury hotel and spa in Yorkshire.

In essence, the company had to create the water effect without seeing how it is being created. With all Tills water features there needs to be fountain and water treatment plant equipment, which are implemented with systems to enable the operator to maintain the water feature, along with various interconnecting pipework.

The challenge was to deliver an end result where only the water and elegant brass fountain nozzles are seen, without compromising how it is serviced and maintained.

Solution

Tills' approach was to break down all the elements of the design, analyse them and make them disappear into the ground or water feature construction; if not, they were very discretely hidden within the water feature.

Clever choices of materials, colours and, where required, bespoke parts were manufactured so anything in the octagonal pool blended into the background, giving full enjoyment to the visual effect of the fountains and mesmerising meadering water as it flowed down the rill.

Result

The fountain adds structure to the garden, and gives movement, sound and captures light.

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. The rill, pool and fountains in the exquisite formal gardens form part of the development.