Drinking Fountain to North of 'Ronaldsway' is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 2002. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain to North of 'Ronaldsway'

WRENN ID
gentle-pillar-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hastings
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 2002
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain to North of 'Ronaldsway', Gillsman's Hill
OS grid reference
TQ 791 103
Coordinates
50.86449, 0.54462
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This drinking fountain, dated 1873, is located to the north of 'Ronaldsway' on Gillsman's Hill in St Leonards on Sea. It is a Gothic style structure made of sandstone, standing about nine feet high, nine feet wide, and five feet deep. The fountain features a gabled sandstone roof with coping and kneelers, as well as a pointed arch. Inside, there is a Medieval style pink granite lion's head waterspout that discharges spring water into a cantilevered pink granite bowl. The water drains through cast iron grilles set slightly below the existing floor level. There are small niches on each side that likely held drinking vessels.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain to North of 'Ronaldsway' receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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