Watts Memorial Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Drinking fountain.

Watts Memorial Drinking Fountain

WRENN ID
gilded-window-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Watts Memorial Drinking Fountain, Wellington Hill West
OS grid reference
ST 590 767
Coordinates
51.48808, -2.59061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Watts Memorial Drinking Fountain is a drinking fountain dated 1900, located in Horfield, Bristol. It is made of cast-iron and Pennant stone. The fountain features a round stone plinth and a square pedestal with basins on each side, adorned with relief ornamentation and protruding oil lamps. The gas lamp is supported by raised animal feet and has a round fluted shaft with an acanthus base and fern capital, along with bars and supports for the missing gas lamp. A plaque commemorating J Watts is also present. The fountain was cast in Glasgow.

Local climate

Watts Memorial Drinking Fountain receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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