Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1987. Drinking fountain.
Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ancient-forge-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich MP: Sarah Coombes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1987
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street, West Bromwich
- OS grid reference
- SP 007 909
- Coordinates
- 52.51673, -1.99064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain and canopy, located on High Street in West Bromwich, was built in 1885 and is made of cast iron. It features decorated round columns with foliated capitals. The upper part of the structure has multi-cusped round arches on each side, adorned with openwork foliage decoration. Above each arch, there is a circle with a ropework border that contains a cartouche depicting a stork. On one side, instead of a stork, there is an inscription that reads: "In loving memory of Elizabeth Farley. This fountain was erected by her son Alderman Farley JP 1885." The dome, which has openwork decoration between its ribs, is topped with an eagle. Some of the bases of the columns are inscribed with "W MACFARLANE & CO GLASGOW."
Local climate
Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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