Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 2001. Fountain, trough. 1 related planning application.
Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn
- WRENN ID
- pitched-hammer-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 2001
- Type
- Fountain, trough
- Address
- Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn, Heywood Old Road, OL10 2QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 851 077
- Coordinates
- 53.56614, -2.22588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain Horse Trough, located to the north of the White Hart Inn on Heywood Old Road, is a drinking fountain and horse and dog drinking trough built in 1888. It was designed by architect Edgar Wood for Messrs W.C. Wood and Bros, textile manufacturers. The structure is made of ashlar gritstone and red brick, featuring a depressed semi-circular arch that rises from shallow gabled buttresses. The arch is supported by a square pier, which extends through the center of the arch and has a red brick base. The arch head is adorned with gablets on either side of the pier, and the pier itself has a moulded flat cap with small dome finials at the corners. Between the central pier and the outer buttresses, there are two stone troughs. This trough was created to commemorate the completion of a new weaving shed at the textile factory and was donated to the people of Birch. It was relocated and repaired near its original site following a road widening scheme.
Local climate
Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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