Jubilee Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Drinking fountain.
Jubilee Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- buried-cellar-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Jubilee Drinking Fountain, Jubille Drinking Fountian, Market Hill, Huntingdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 238 717
- Coordinates
- 52.33018, -0.18431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Jubilee Drinking Fountain is located on the north wall of the Town Hall in Huntingdon. It was erected by the Huntingdon Borough Council in 1887. The fountain features a sandstone tablet that bears this inscription. It has a pink granite basin with a bronze lion's head spout.
Local climate
Jubilee Drinking Fountain sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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