Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- sombre-rubble-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- SU 607 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60019, -1.12459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located approximately 40 meters north of the Town Hall in Wallingford's Market Place, was created around 1885 and cast by Walter Macfarlane's foundry in Glasgow. It is made of cast iron and features decorative fluted columns that support a domed canopy topped with a painted finial. In the center, there is a circular fountain on a pedestal. The fountain was presented by Alderman Hawkins in 1885, later removed to the Bullcroft, and returned to its original site in 1979.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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