Miss Bells Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 2001. Drinking fountain, lamp.
Miss Bells Fountain
- WRENN ID
- tattered-hinge-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 2001
- Type
- Drinking fountain, lamp
- Address
- Miss Bells Fountain, Butts Road, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SU 712 387
- Coordinates
- 51.14398, -0.98222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Miss Bell's Fountain is a drinking fountain and combined street lamp, erected in 1879. It was designed by Sir Charles Barry for the Metropolitan Drinking and Cattle Trough Association and was donated by Miss Eliza Bell of Borovere. The fountain is made of polished Cornish grey granite and bronze. It features an octagonal stepped base with a circular pedestal and bowl on top. From the center rises the fountain column, which is topped by an ornate squat bronze standard that was originally surmounted by a globe-shaped lamp with a finial. Miss Eliza Bell intended to have a street light at the end of her drive on the Winchester road at the edge of Alton, and this gas street lamp combined with the fountain was erected at her expense. A similar fountain, also donated by Miss Bell, was placed in the civic square at Crown Close before being replaced by the War memorial and re-erected in the Public Gardens in Alton.
Local climate
Miss Bells Fountain receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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