Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Drinking fountain.
Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- third-porch-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain, Front Street West, West Bedlington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 256 819
- Coordinates
- 55.13127, -1.59977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain is a drinking fountain dated 1899, located on Front Street West in Bedlington. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, featuring white marble and pink granite. The fountain has a square plan, with the lower section showcasing stepped diagonal buttresses and a moulded granite bowl on the east side, beneath a tablet inscribed in memory of Dr. James Trotter. The upper section includes niches with an impost band decorated with carved foliage, with the eastern niche displaying a marble bas-relief bust of Dr. Trotter. The structure is topped with crocketed gablets and corner pinnacles, along with a taller superstructure that features similar ornamental details.
Local climate
Trotter Memorial Drinking Fountain receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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