Drinking Fountain at North End of Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Fountain. 3 related planning applications.

Drinking Fountain at North End of Lake

WRENN ID
stark-bastion-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain at North End of Lake, L17 1AP
OS grid reference
SJ 376 877
Coordinates
53.38302, -2.93907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This drinking fountain, located at the north end of the lake in Sefton Park, is a replica of the Eros statue from the Shaftesbury Memorial in London, designed by Alfred Gilbert. It was created in 1932 and is signed by the founder A B Burton. The fountain is made of bronze and features an octagonal base with a continuous trough. It is decorated in a style characteristic of Art Nouveau, including motifs of fish and baby mermaids. The fountain has eight bowls positioned over the trough and numerous openings for water jets, with the top statue depicting Eros.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain at North End of Lake sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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