Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1993. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- deep-hall-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1993
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, St Thomas's Square E8
- OS grid reference
- TQ 349 843
- Coordinates
- 51.54205, -0.05505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dated 1912, is located in St Thomas's Square. It is made of pink and grey polished granite. The fountain features a circular pedestal with a moulded base and cornice that supports a column with taps, which are screened by grey granite columns with capitals. At the top, there is a moulded circular cup with a ball finial. The pedestal is inscribed with the words, "Presented to the Hackney Borough Council by Morris Nelson Esq in memory of his wife Esther. Unveiled by Councillor William Hammer Mayor of Hackney 31st October 1912."
Local climate
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 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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