Drinking Fountain and Cattle/Horse Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. A Late C19 Drinking fountain and trough. 2 related planning applications.
Drinking Fountain and Cattle/Horse Trough
- WRENN ID
- bitter-merlon-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merton
- Constituency
- Wimbledon MP: Mr Paul Kohler (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain and trough
- Address
- Drinking Fountain and Cattle/Horse Trough, Parkside Sw19, SW19 5NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 235 714
- Coordinates
- 51.42826, -0.22372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain and cattle/horse trough, dating from the late 19th century, is made of cast iron and features an ornate square base. The fountain consists of a ring of five fluted columns topped with waterleaf capitals, a cornice, a shallow dome, and a finial. To the east, there is a granite drinking trough that includes an urn with a water outlet.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain and Cattle/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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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