Street lamp and fountain in front of Croxteth Park entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A Victorian Fountain.
Street lamp and fountain in front of Croxteth Park entrance
- WRENN ID
- empty-porch-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool West Derby MP: Ian Byrne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Street lamp and fountain in front of Croxteth Park entrance, West Derby Village
- OS grid reference
- SJ 396 932
- Coordinates
- 53.43265, -2.90946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a drinking fountain located in front of the entrance to Croxteth Park, dated 1894 and designed by Arthur P. Fry. It is made of stone and bronze, featuring a round base supported by three battered buttresses. On the west side, there is a cusped niche that originally housed a mosaic and a fitting for a fountain, which has since been removed. The fountain includes a stone bowl and a round-headed recess below that serves as a dog bowl. A circular cornice around the top is inscribed with the words "Water is Best, the Gift of Richard Robert Meade-King 1894 designed by Arthur P. Fry." At the very top, there is a stone conical feature crowned by an elaborate bronze street lamp with an ornamented lantern.
Local climate
Street lamp and fountain in front of Croxteth Park entrance 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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