Drinking Fountain North of Main Drive, Parallel with Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain North of Main Drive, Parallel with Railway

WRENN ID
gentle-rubblework-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain North of Main Drive, Parallel with Railway, Haslam Park
OS grid reference
SD 517 307
Coordinates
53.77096, -2.73394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This drinking fountain, located north of the main drive and parallel with the railway in Haslam Park, was constructed in 1911. It is made of cast iron and features an open-work design on a stone base, showcasing a Gothic style. The fountain is supported by four fluted columns and has four moulded cusped arches with ornamented spandrels and scrolled corners. It is topped with a domed roof adorned with griffons, ribs, and a coronet. Each side of the fountain has roundels displaying a pelican emblem in shields along with inscriptions that read: "Presented by Councillor W.G. Makinson January 1911" and "Keep the pavement dry." The basin is set on a composite pedestal with the fountain positioned above it.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain North of Main Drive, Parallel with Railway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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