Cattle Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1991. Cattle trough. 20 related planning applications.
Cattle Trough
- WRENN ID
- vacant-railing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1991
- Type
- Cattle trough
- Address
- Cattle Trough, Bayswater Road W2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 259 805
- Coordinates
- 51.51028, -0.18596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cattle trough built in 1893, donated by David Benjamin through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. It was restored around 1989. The trough is made of grey granite and is supported on rectangular blocks, with a waste water tray beneath. At one end, it features a shaped head and cistern, inscribed with the words "Be kind and merciful to all animals." The Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, founded in 1859, added cattle troughs in 1867 to provide free fresh water to both people and animals at a time when clean water was hard to find. By 1885, these troughs helped prevent dehydration in cattle driven to metropolitan markets and over 50,000 working horses in London.
Local climate
Cattle Trough sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 20 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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