Drinking Fountain in South West Corner of Wall of Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain in South West Corner of Wall of Railway Bridge

WRENN ID
stranded-porch-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1972
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain in South West Corner of Wall of Railway Bridge, Derby Street
OS grid reference
SD 416 083
Coordinates
53.56841, -2.88253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain, dated 1858, is located in the south-west corner of the wall of a railway bridge in Ormskirk. It is made of sandstone and pink marble and is built into the parapet of the bridge. The fountain features a semi-circular marble bowl and a rectangular reredos panel, also dated 1858, although the spout furnishings are missing. Above the reredos is a sandstone plaque with worn lettering, and there is a pitched upstand with a trefoil cusp at the top and flat stone coping. This fountain is part of a group that includes the railway bridge itself, as well as Nos 11 and 13 diagonally opposite, and No. 36 on the opposite corner of Railway Road.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain in South West Corner of Wall of Railway Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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