Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Drinking fountain.
Memorial Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- silver-doorway-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Memorial Drinking Fountain, Branxton
- OS grid reference
- NT 894 375
- Coordinates
- 55.63179, -2.1695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial drinking fountain, built in 1910 by George Reavel of Alnwick, is constructed from ashlar and iron. It features a central section approximately 8 feet high, which is corniced and flanked by pilasters adorned with carved panels depicting bunches of fruit. At the base, there is a rounded stone projection that supports an iron basin positioned beneath the iron spout. Above the basin is an inscription that reads: "TO THE MEMORY/OF/WILLIAM ASKEW ROBERTSON/OF/PALLINSBURN/JULY 1910." The fountain is complemented by short ramped-down side walls with moulded coping, leading to lower concave quadrant walls that include built-in stone seats on rounded brackets.
Local climate
Memorial Drinking Fountain receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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