Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gable-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Albert Gardens E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 356 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51312, -0.04722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, built in 1903, is located in Albert Gardens. It features a statue of a Shepherd Boy on top, with a plinth that has a bas relief design of bulrushes and flowers. This fountain is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 495 to 529 (odd) Commercial Road.
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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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