Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Fountain, trough.
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough
- WRENN ID
- sharp-eave-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Fountain, trough
- Address
- Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 801 101
- Coordinates
- 53.58795, -2.30147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough, built in 1897 by T R Kitsell, is an Italianate structure gifted by Miss Openshaw of Tenterden Street. It features an ornate arched canopy made of Portland stone supported by four short red granite Ionic columns, and a white granite plinth. The inscriptions include "Vic Reg 1897; 60 years." The peripheral basins are designed to accommodate up to three horses, three dogs, and two men for drinking at the same time. At the center, there is a putto made of red granite on a pedestal. The design includes iron scrollwork in the heads of the arches, a cornice, and a balustrade, behind which rises an open stone peak topped with a finial. The fountain is also adorned with carved decorations of animal heads and coats of arms.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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