Drinking Fountain, 30 Metres South-East of Entrance to Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain, 30 Metres South-East of Entrance to Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- long-mantel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NZ 229 262
- Coordinates
- 54.63131, -1.64625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This public drinking fountain, located 30 metres south-east of the entrance to the Recreation Ground, was built in 1914 by Hill and Smith Ltd. of Brierley Hill, Staffordshire. It features an octagonal stone plinth with a cast-iron canopy and a tapering, cylindrical fountain that includes a bowl. The structure is supported by eight slender, ribbed columns with shaped bases and foliage capitals, which hold up an octagonal, pierced, arcaded drum and cupola. The drum is adorned with eight roundels, positioned between dragon's heads, each depicting a railway locomotive designed by Timothy Hackworth. One roundel on the west side is inscribed: "PRESENTED TO THE INHABITANTS OF SHILDON BY THE MEMBERS OF THE OLD SHILDON WORKMEN'S CLUB. NOVEMBER 1914."
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, 30 Metres South-East of Entrance to Recreation Ground receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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