Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- silver-quartz-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Durham Chare, Bishop Auckland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 213 299
- Coordinates
- 54.66432, -1.67128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dated 1873, was created for the Temperance League and is located in Bishop Auckland on Durham Chare. It is built from dressed stone and ashlar and features a square plan in the Gothic Revival style. The fountain has a roll moulded segmental arch over a round-lipped basin that projects in an ogee shape above a chamfered base. The side and rear panels include small arches, with the right return being open. The front arch lintel has sloped sides, and above it, the high coping is broached to two octagonal stages topped with a cast-iron finial, which likely served as a lampholder originally. An inscription reading "ERECTED BY THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY 1873" is located above the lintel. There is a damaged water pipe inside on the left, and the fountain is no longer functioning.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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