Drinking Fountain at Junction with Bourn Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Bourn Road
- WRENN ID
- small-courtyard-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain at Junction with Bourn Road, Ermine Street, Caxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 580
- Coordinates
- 52.20538, -0.09215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a drinking fountain located at the junction with Bourn Road, dating from the mid-19th century. The structure features walls made of limestone and pebble rubble, integrated into an earth bank. The fountain has a copper spout mounted on a dressed limestone slab, which also includes a drain beneath it. On two wall panels flanking the fountain, there is an inscription that reads, "This wayside drinking fountain is in memory of Emma Mary Hendley, Author of Personal and Domestic Hygiene for India."
Local climate
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Bourn Road 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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