Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1993. Drinking fountain, horse trough.
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-wattle-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merton
- Constituency
- Mitcham and Morden MP: Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Drinking fountain, horse trough
- Address
- Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 250 674
- Coordinates
- 51.39238, -0.20371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain and horse trough, located on London Road in Morden, dates from the late 19th century. It features a rectangular granite horse trough with a chamfered base supported by two granite supports. One end of the trough has an ogee-shaped granite gable with a semi-circular bowl attached. There is an inscription on the roadside that reads "Metropolitan drinking fountain cattle trough association," and a dog trough is situated below.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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