Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1978. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- third-ashlar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1978
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Hightown, Sandbach
- OS grid reference
- SJ 756 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14444, -2.36488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, built in 1897, is a Grade II listed structure designed by architect Thomas Bower, who also designed the Town Hall. It is made of stone and has a circular plan. The base features a central basin with four projecting stoups, surrounded by a ring of eight Tuscan columns. These columns support a shaped canopy that includes a triglyph frieze, shaped gablets, and a ball-headed shaped pinnacle.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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