Clock and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1975. Fountain.
Clock and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- hushed-outpost-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Stockport MP: Navendu Mishra (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1975
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Clock and Drinking Fountain, Houldsworth Square
- OS grid reference
- SJ 894 934
- Coordinates
- 53.43756, -2.16017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed structure located in Houldsworth Square, designed and erected by J. and H. Patteson of Manchester and unveiled in September 1920. It features a plinth with an inscription, a bronze portrait roundel, and a fountain niche with a bow on its faces. The fountain is supported by clustered columns made of pink granite with carved capitals. Above this, there is a block with a clock face, topped with a gable and a foliated finial.
The inscription dedicates the fountain to the memory of Sir William Houldsworth Baronet, acknowledging the generous contributions he made to enrich and beautify the village of Reddish, as well as his concern for the community's spiritual and physical well-being. Sir William was responsible for building St Elisabeth's Church and its surrounding complex, along with Houldsworth Mill and the workers' housing terraces, as part of a planned industrial estate in the 1870s.
Local climate
Clock and Drinking Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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