Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1973. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- noble-kitchen-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1973
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Market Place
- OS grid reference
- SK 057 731
- Coordinates
- 53.25574, -1.91517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, also known as a well head, dates from the early 19th century and is located in Buxton's Market Place. It is made of weathered dressed stone and features a bowl-shaped urn with a rolled top, which sits on a stepped base. The urn is supported by a square stone pedestal that has a cornice at the top. The pedestal base has recessed panels on three sides; the front panel is arched and may have originally included a raised motif and the date 1840. The rear of the pedestal is constructed from coursed stone blocks.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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