Charles Mccheane Drinking Fountain at Junction of Western Parade is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. Drinking fountain.
Charles Mccheane Drinking Fountain at Junction of Western Parade
- WRENN ID
- dim-chalk-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1999
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Charles Mccheane Drinking Fountain at Junction of Western Parade, Southsea Terrace, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 638 990
- Coordinates
- 50.78788, -1.09507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Charles McCheane Drinking Fountain, located at the junction of Western Parade in Southsea, Portsmouth, is a monument built in 1889 and restored in 1977. Made of stone, the fountain features two opposed water points and four basins equipped with chained iron cups. An inscription on the fountain commemorates Charles E. McCheane, who passed away on November 2nd, 1888, and notes that the fountain was erected in November 1889 by friends from the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club, which McCheane helped establish in 1880. A bronze plaque indicates that the fountain was restored by the residents of the Castle Road area and the Portsmouth City Council to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1977.
Local climate
Charles Mccheane Drinking Fountain at Junction of Western Parade receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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