Conduit Head Immediately South of Nos 5 and 7 is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Fountain.
Conduit Head Immediately South of Nos 5 and 7
- WRENN ID
- carved-balcony-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Conduit Head Immediately South of Nos 5 and 7, Russell Hill, Thornhaugh, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 069 005
- Coordinates
- 52.59222, -0.42246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The conduit head, dated 1839, is located immediately south of Nos 5 and 7 on Russell Hill in Thornhaugh. This small structure is made of ashlar and features a raised parapet with the date displayed in a panel. Below the parapet, there is an arched recess that houses an iron lion's head fountain, which has a basin positioned below it.
Local climate
Conduit Head Immediately South of Nos 5 and 7 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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