Drinking Fountain Approximately 16 Metres East of Central Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain Approximately 16 Metres East of Central Buildings
- WRENN ID
- cold-sill-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- NZ 128 205
- Coordinates
- 54.58044, -1.8031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located approximately 16 metres east of the Central Buildings in Staindrop, was built in 1865. It was a gift to the parish from Lady Augusta Mary Poulet in memory of Henry and Sophia, Duke and Duchess of Cleveland. The fountain is made of sandstone ashlar, with some pink stone, and is designed in the Gothic style. It features a round column about 2 metres high, standing on a moulded square base, with a clasping band and a water leaf capital. The fountain has high gabled coping adorned with coronets and commemorative inscriptions at the peaks of the gables, along with crockets positioned between the gables at the base of a narrower column finial, which has conical coping carved to resemble a roof with lucarnes. A round basin is attached to the east side of the base, and there is a damaged tap above the clasping band.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain Approximately 16 Metres East of Central Buildings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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