Steelyard at the Fountain Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Industrial.
Steelyard at the Fountain Inn
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-bracket-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Steelyard at the Fountain Inn, Fountain Lane, Soham
- OS grid reference
- TL 593 732
- Coordinates
- 52.33427, 0.33663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The steelyard at The Fountain Inn is a device used for weighing wagons, likely originating in the 18th century. It is situated on a yellow gault brick base and is sheltered from the weather by a timber frame and weather-boarded casing topped with a tiled gabled roof. While much of the machinery is probably from the late 19th or 20th century, part of the main arm and post are original. This structure is noted in Alderton & Booker's "Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia" and in Pevsner's "Buildings of England," page 459.
Local climate
Steelyard at the Fountain Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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