Drinking Fountain About 50 Metres West North West of Entrance to Clarence Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain About 50 Metres West North West of Entrance to Clarence Park
- WRENN ID
- keen-spindle-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- SE 328 197
- Coordinates
- 53.6735, -1.50347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thornes Drinking Fountain, located about 50 meters west-north-west of the entrance to Clarence Park, is an octagonal structure built in 1893. It is accessed by four octagonal steps and features a thick, round column from which four basins extend, each situated under a pedimented alcove. The fountain showcases a classical design in sandstone, with grey granite panels between the alcoves. It is topped with a pointed roof. An inscription notes that it was erected as a memorial to the late Major Barker JP by the work-people of Thornes Mills.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain About 50 Metres West North West of Entrance to Clarence Park receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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