Memorial Fountain to Robert Ockleston is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Memorial Fountain to Robert Ockleston
- WRENN ID
- slow-casement-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Cheadle MP: Tom Morrison (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Memorial Fountain to Robert Ockleston, Queens Gardens, SK8 2BA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 860 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39514, -2.21084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial Fountain to Robert Ockleston is a water fountain and drinking trough located in Queens Gardens, Cheadle. It was erected in 1889 in memory of Robert Ockleston, who died in 1888. The fountain is made of sandstone, polished granite, and cast iron. It features an octagonal trough, which is now used as a planter, and includes a small drinking bowl with a gablet. A circular polished granite column rises from an elaborate base and is topped with an enriched capital that bears an inscription and heraldic shields. The fountain originally had a cast iron weather-vane with four light pendants. Robert Ockleston was a notable doctor in Cheadle, and the memorial was previously located at the center of Cheadle Green.
Local climate
Memorial Fountain to Robert Ockleston 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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