Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Eastbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1992. Fountain. 1 related planning application.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- heavy-porch-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne MP: Josh Babarinde (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1992
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Seahouses Square, BN22 7AY
- OS grid reference
- TV 619 992
- Coordinates
- 50.76983, 0.295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, erected in 1865 by local resident Elizabeth Curling, is a cast iron structure that has been restored in 2000. It features a rectangular design with two intertwined dolphins on top that support a restored lantern. The fountain is raised on three octagonal Portland stone steps, which have also been restored. It has a mutule cornice above panels and fasces below. On alternating sides, there are taps, bowls, and two small circular shelves that once held drinking cups, which are now missing. The other faces of the fountain have oval inscription panels, each engraved with 'erected MDCCCLXV'. One panel includes the biblical text 'Jesus said whoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again', while the other states, 'Jesus said whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst'. Originally located along Seaside, the fountain was moved in the 1950s to the corner of Langney Road and Seaside before being fully restored and relocated to its current position in 2000. Old photographs indicate that it originally had a gas lantern on top.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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