Disused Drinking Fountain Adjoining West of No 74 Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Drinking fountain.

Disused Drinking Fountain Adjoining West of No 74 Fore Street

WRENN ID
ruined-jade-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Drinking fountain
OS grid reference
SW 731 291
Coordinates
50.11879, -5.17494
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a disused drinking fountain dating from the mid to late 19th century, located against the end wall of a cottage at No 74 Fore Street in Constantine. The fountain is made of granite and stands about 1 metre tall, featuring a small round-headed design with a niche at the front. Inside the niche, there is a stopped pipe instead of a tap, and a wrought iron bar spans the front of the niche. In front of the fountain, there is a granite block that likely served as a bucket stand. This fountain is one of six surviving drinking fountains that provided water to the village, piped from the top of Constantine.

Local climate

Disused Drinking Fountain Adjoining West of No 74 Fore Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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