Pant is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. A Victorian Drinking fountain.
Pant
- WRENN ID
- third-passage-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Pant, Galgate, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54504, -1.92409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pant, or drinking fountain, is a structure dated 1874 located in Barnard Castle. It is built from sandstone, featuring pink sandstone nook-shafts, and is designed in the Gothic Revival style. The pant has a square plan and includes a moulded plinth with broken drinking troughs that project from the north and south supports. It features four pointed arches with wide stop-chamfered double chamfers. Within these arches, there is a square base that once supported a drinking fountain, which has moulded side panels. The nook-shafts between the arches are topped with stiff-leaf capitals. High gables above the arches are adorned with nailhead moulding and foliage stops, culminating in a central square base that may have held a lamp. The date 1874 is inscribed on the south gable. In June 1991, the local District Council undertook rebuilding and restoration work on the structure.
Local climate
Pant receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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