Drinking Fountain to South of Central Range of Hexham County Primary Infant and Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1976. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain to South of Central Range of Hexham County Primary Infant and Junior School
- WRENN ID
- swift-corner-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1976
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain to South of Central Range of Hexham County Primary Infant and Junior School, the Seal or Sele
- OS grid reference
- NY 933 641
- Coordinates
- 54.97228, -2.10602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain located to the south of the central range of Hexham County Primary Infant and Junior School was built around 1912. It is a small cast iron structure topped with a domed roof, featuring elaborate scrollwork and cusped arches. The corners are adorned with brackets over Corinthian columns, which have miniature dragons on them. In the center, there is a central column with a wide shallow bowl and tap urns positioned in the middle.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain to South of Central Range of Hexham County Primary Infant and Junior School receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 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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