Victoria Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. Fountain.
Victoria Fountain
- WRENN ID
- ragged-render-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Victoria Fountain, the Plain
- OS grid reference
- SP 522 059
- Coordinates
- 51.75025, -1.2444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria Fountain is an octagonal building dated 1899, supported by eight Tuscan columns. It features a central fountain adorned with a scallop motif and four cocks. The structure is topped with a conical tiled roof that includes a clock and a weathervane.
Local climate
Victoria Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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