Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1976. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- dusk-vault-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1976
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Silver Street, Stansted Mountfitchet
- OS grid reference
- TL 509 250
- Coordinates
- 51.90373, 0.19319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, located on Silver Street in Stansted Mountfitchet, dates from the late 19th century, around 1871. It is made of cast iron and features a domed, ornamented canopy supported by cast iron columns with semi-circular arches. The fountain is elevated on a stepped platform that has three steps.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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