Cattle Trough and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2018. A Early 20th century Drinking fountain.
Cattle Trough and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- tattered-entrance-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2018
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- TQ 266 871
- Coordinates
- 51.56922, -0.17468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cattle trough and drinking fountain built around 1916. It is made from granite and measures approximately 9 feet 6 inches long. The structure features a water tank that rests on squat piers, with a gabled west end that includes an integrated drinking fountain on the west face. The spout and pump mechanism are missing. On the east face of the tank, there is an inscription that bears the name of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.
Local climate
Cattle Trough and 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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