Drinking Fountain and Animal Drinking Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1970. A C20 Drinking fountain, animal trough.

Drinking Fountain and Animal Drinking Trough

WRENN ID
cold-doorway-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Sussex
Constituency
Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 April 1970
Type
Drinking fountain, animal trough
Address
Drinking Fountain and Animal Drinking Trough, Black Hill, Lindfield
OS grid reference
TQ 345 251
Coordinates
51.01009, -0.08275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a combined drinking fountain and animal drinking trough, dated 1911, serving as a Coronation memorial. The fountain features a square pillar made of Portland stone, which tapers towards the base and has a moulded stone cornice and a ball finial. To the left of the pillar is a semicircular stone basin, all set on a stone plinth. Next to it is a granite tapering animal drinking trough.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain and Animal Drinking Trough receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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