Drinking Trough 4 Metres East of Shepherds Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Drinking trough.
Drinking Trough 4 Metres East of Shepherds Cross
- WRENN ID
- steep-dormer-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Drinking trough
- OS grid reference
- SJ 896 604
- Coordinates
- 53.1409, -2.15633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking trough, located 4 meters east of Shepherds Cross, is possibly from the early 19th century and is made of stone. It features twin-headed niches constructed from three voussoir blocks with projecting keystones above the trough, although one keystone is now missing. The trough is integrated into a wall whose coping rises to form a pair of corbelled dwarf finials topped with pyramidal cappings, with a crested block positioned between the pinnacles.
Local climate
Drinking Trough 4 Metres East of Shepherds Cross receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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