Drinking Fountain opposite No 7, Mount Pleasant is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. A 19th century Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain opposite No 7, Mount Pleasant
- WRENN ID
- final-forge-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain opposite No 7, Mount Pleasant, Hildenborough, Kent, TN11 9JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 567 487
- Coordinates
- 51.21665, 0.24345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain opposite No 7, Mount Pleasant is a Gothic style stone structure, built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was relocated to its current position around 2005.
Constructed from Portland stone and pink granite, the fountain has a square plan. It features a superstructure made of Portland stone with gables on all four sides, resting on a battered and coped base, also of Portland stone. The fountain is set within a trefoil-headed niche on the north-west (front) elevation, where the inscription THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA is displayed above. Above this inscription is a quatrefoil panel that bears the date 1887. Inside the niche, there is a bowl and a fountain-back made of polished pink granite, along with a metal spout mechanism that has cast letters reading: J. TYLOR AND SONS LTD, 2 NEWGATE ST. LONDON.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain opposite No 7, Mount Pleasant receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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