Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- quiet-joist-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Erewash MP: Adam Thompson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1986
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Market Place
- OS grid reference
- SK 464 417
- Coordinates
- 52.97099, -1.30942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, horse trough, and lamp standard was built in 1889 and restored in 1980. It is made of cast iron and sits on a stone base. The fountain has a trefoil base with steps on the west side, and a hexagonal body. The main feature faces east, with two sides curving out to support piers that hold putti with urns. Between these piers is a gothic arch that encloses a face in relief, from which water spouts. There are colonnettes at the angles, and trefoil caps with a frieze and blocks supporting crowns and brackets for the lamp standard. The lamp standard has a twisted column with a capital that branches out to two tapering square lanterns.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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