Drinking Fountain 20 Metres to South East of Gray Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1985. Fountain.

Drinking Fountain 20 Metres to South East of Gray Art Gallery

WRENN ID
other-baluster-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hartlepool
Constituency
Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1985
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NZ 509 327
Coordinates
54.68681, -1.2118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain, located 20 meters southeast of the Gray Art Gallery and Museum, was built in 1902 and is made of ornamental polychrome faience set on stone steps. It has a triangular plan and features a moulded cornice on the pedestal, ramped angle buttresses, and cyma recta moulding on a plinth that rests on circular-plan steps. Each face of the pedestal has a segmental-arched opening, with angle pilaster strips, a continuous entablature, and a shallow parapet adorned with urn finials at the corners. At the top, there is a hexagonal quasi-lantern with a pyramidal roof and a ball finial. The fountain is positioned within the arched openings, and a plaque on the north face of the lantern reads: "Presented by Henry Withy, J.P., May 24th 1902." Originally, the fountain was erected in Burn Valley Gardens and was relocated to its current site in 1979.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain 20 Metres to South East of Gray Art Gallery receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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