Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1994. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- odd-clay-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1994
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Station Forecourt, Harwich, CO12 3NA
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 324
- Coordinates
- 51.94425, 1.28711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dating from the 19th century, is located in the station forecourt of Harwich. It was manufactured by George Smith & Co, Sun Foundry, Glasgow. The fountain features an octagonal cast-iron structure with a plinth, a concave waist, and a tall barrel that has a moulded base. At the top, there is a double flange with decorative fixing bolts, leading to an ogee domical top with a finial. One face of the fountain has an ogee-shaped bowl, and each facet is framed with a moulded band, displaying a decorative strapwork motif on every other face of the ogee top.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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