Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- long-storey-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Market Street, St. Austell
- OS grid reference
- SX 013 524
- Coordinates
- 50.33841, -4.79239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dated 1890, is located on Market Street in St Austell. It is made of marble and features a polished granite bowl, with columns flanking a pointed arch niche. The roof of the fountain is topped with an elaborate cast iron lamp standard.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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