Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- low-grate-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Whitehall Park
- OS grid reference
- SD 694 202
- Coordinates
- 53.67745, -2.46374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, likely from the late 19th century, is made of cast iron. It features octagonal stone steps and a base, with a bowl and fountain situated on a pedestal. The fountain is sheltered by an intricately designed openwork octagonal canopy topped with a cupola, which is supported by slender columns adorned with foliated caps. It is probably the work of Walter Macfarlane & Co from Glasgow.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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