Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- ghost-rubblework-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Gateacre Brow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 427 877
- Coordinates
- 53.38338, -2.86209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, built in 1883, features a canopy designed to resemble an ancient market cross. Constructed from stone, it has a pyramidal stone slate roof. The fountain showcases elliptical arches on all sides, each adorned with cartouche keys. It is richly decorated with Jacobean ornamentation, including beasts in the spandrels, a cornice above, and alternating masks and mermaids. The southeast side displays the Liverpool arms. An inscription on the fountain reads, "ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF GATEACRE: IN MEMORY OF JOHN. H.: WILSON 1883." Additionally, there are strapwork cornices and a gargoyle on the north side, topped with a ball finial on the roof.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain 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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