Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- white-step-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Old Cross, Hertford, SG14 1RD
- OS grid reference
- TL 324 127
- Coordinates
- 51.79736, -0.08053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, located on Old Cross in Hertford, was built in 1890 using fragments from the former Church of St Mary the Less, which was discovered on the site during the library's construction in 1880. The church dates back to before 1210 and was destroyed before 1552.
The fountain is made of clunch stone and features a base with a small pointed arch above a drainage recess, which has crude roll mouldings. It includes a projecting band with a central stoup and a tablet with a central tap. Above this is a rebuilt 13th-century lancet window adorned with colonnettes topped with bell caps, a roll-moulded outer arch, and an inner reveal decorated with continuous dog tooth ornament and chamfered jambs.
A tablet at the base of the lancet opening commemorates the history of the fountain, which was erected through public subscription.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 0.3°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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