Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1996. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- buried-rampart-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1996
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Town Quay, Falmouth
- OS grid reference
- SW 811 325
- Coordinates
- 50.15218, -5.06552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located at Town Quay in Falmouth, was built in 1860 and is inscribed with "F.P.O." (Falmouth Packet Office) and "BONO." It is made of dressed granite and stands on a granite base. The fountain features a pyramidal cap with a moulded cornice, a frieze, and an architrave above a half-domed niche that has square-edged imposts. The bowl is corbelled and canted, with a small half-domed drain niche and a stepped apron that bows at the center. The fountain is included for its historical significance and its contribution to the group value of the area.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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