Drinking fountain at West End is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Drinking fountain.
Drinking fountain at West End
- WRENN ID
- sharp-chalk-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking fountain at West End, Meols Parade
- OS grid reference
- SJ 218 897
- Coordinates
- 53.39902, -3.17667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain at West End was built in 1901 by Walter MacFarlane and Co of Glasgow. It is made of cast iron and features an openwork canopy supported by four columns. The canopy has cusped round arches with foliate spandrels and round relief plaques of Queen Victoria positioned above. The cupola is adorned with dragons at the angles and a finial at the top. Inside the cupola, there are pendants at the top and corners. The drinking fountain itself is mounted on a column with four shafts and lizards with foliate tails. It has a shallow bowl with incised decoration and a gadrooned edge that supports a shaft from which a water jet emerges through a decorated cap.
Local climate
Drinking fountain at West End sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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