Drinking Fountain at Junction with Shaftesbury Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1998. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Shaftesbury Avenue
- WRENN ID
- late-paling-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1998
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain at Junction with Shaftesbury Avenue, New Oxford Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51596, -0.12635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, located at the junction with Shaftesbury Avenue, was built in 1897. It was presented by the St Giles Board of Works through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association to commemorate Queen Victoria's two Jubilees. The fountain is made of polished red granite and is designed in a Romanesque style. It features a rectangular stepped base with block steps leading up to a canopy supported by attached columns at the corners. This canopy has an entablature with a cornice that rises to form segmental pediments on each face. At the top, there is a gadrooned dome. Each side of the canopy includes a shallow round-arched niche with incised decoration, a water spout, and a projecting semicircular basin.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Shaftesbury Avenue 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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