The Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 2002. Drinking fountain.
The Fountain
- WRENN ID
- hollow-trefoil-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 2002
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- The Fountain, the Square, Birchington
- OS grid reference
- TR 302 690
- Coordinates
- 51.3738, 1.30716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain is a drinking fountain built in 1909 by Alderman Grant in memory of his wife. It is constructed from granite, oak, and shingles. The base is made of grey granite and features a chamfered square plinth with two semi-circular red/brown granite bowls and a pump housing topped with a pyramidal roof and curved pediments over the bowls. Above this, there is a wooden canopy supported by four chamfered oak posts set diagonally, leading to a chamfered pyramidal roof covered with shingles and a late 20th century electric lantern. The entire structure is set on an octagonal stone step. An inscription on the side facing the road reads, “In memory of LBG 13 May 1905."
Local climate
The Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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