Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- patient-footing-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1976
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Central Parade
- OS grid reference
- TR 177 684
- Coordinates
- 51.3731, 1.12724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, built between 1887 and 1888, is located on Central Parade in Herne Bay. It is made of Portland stone and has a square shape topped with a crown supported by the flippers of four dolphins. The fountain features four segmental pediments and a cornice, along with four round-headed panels and scrolled buttresses. It stands on a plinth with three steps. On the south side, there is a stone statue of a lady dressed in Grecian attire. This drinking fountain was presented to Herne Bay as a Jubilee Memorial of Queen Victoria's reign by Major Horatio D. Davies, Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in 1887-1888.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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