Drinking Fountain Opposite Elms Mews is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1991. Drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain Opposite Elms Mews
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pediment-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1991
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain Opposite Elms Mews, Bayswater Road W2, City of Westminster, W2 3JH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 266 807
- Coordinates
- 51.5114, -0.17658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain opposite Elms Mews is a Grade II listed structure, dated 1872, and was provided by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. It was cleaned and restored around 1989. The fountain is made of pink granite with a grey granite step. It features a battered base and a rectangular column that has a segmental arched niche for the spout and a semi-circular basin. The fountain is topped with cross roofs that create a pediment on each face. Inscribed above the niche is "January 1872," with "J.E.D" in the niche and "Know thyself" beneath the basin. This fountain is a typical example from the Association's catalogue. The Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, which added cattle troughs in 1867, aimed to provide free fresh water to both people and animals at a time when clean water was scarce and often contaminated. The association was supported by evangelical Victorians who associated water with purity of spirit, and while they offered a range of functional designs, some wealthy patrons commissioned their own unique fountains.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain Opposite Elms Mews 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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