Drinking Fountain (Under Railway Bridge at Junction with Lowell Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. A Nineteenth Century Fountain.

Drinking Fountain (Under Railway Bridge at Junction with Lowell Street)

WRENN ID
old-spindle-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Fountain
Period
Nineteenth Century
Address
Drinking Fountain (Under Railway Bridge at Junction with Lowell Street), Commercial Road E14
OS grid reference
TQ 364 811
Coordinates
51.51267, -0.03528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This drinking fountain, located under the railway bridge at the junction with Lowell Street, was built in 1886. It is made of polished granite and features a moulded archivolt surrounding an engraved panel at the back of the fountain's bowl. The fountain commemorates the memory of two brothers.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain (Under Railway Bridge at Junction with Lowell Street) 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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