Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough at Junction with Summerhill Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Fountain, horse trough.

Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough at Junction with Summerhill Road

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Fountain, horse trough
Address
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough at Junction with Summerhill Road, Clouds Hill Road
OS grid reference
ST 623 736
Coordinates
51.46044, -2.54306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain and horse trough, located at the junction with Summerhill Road, was built in 1890 and erected by William Butler. It is made of Portland ashlar with polished red granite plaques and a grey granite trough, set on a square base. Each side features pointed arches with a chamfered plinth, cable mould reveals, and linked hoodmoulds adorned with floral archivolts. The structure has a domed roof topped with a round finial and a plain door at the back. There are bronze lion-head fountains and iron basins on each side, surrounded by red granite, along with a red granite plaque on the front that honors William Butler for presenting the fountain to the people of St George. In front of the fountain, there is a horse trough protected by two bollards, and the entire fountain is set on a low Pennant plinth.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough at Junction with Summerhill Road receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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