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
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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