Ornamental Drinking Fountain Opposite No 8 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Ornamental Drinking Fountain Opposite No 8
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-moulding-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Ornamental Drinking Fountain Opposite No 8, Race Hill, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 332 844
- Coordinates
- 50.63601, -4.35872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This ornamental drinking fountain, dating from 1900, is located opposite No. 8 on Race Hill in Launceston. It is constructed from dressed granite and features a Gothic-style panel niche set against a rubble wall. In front of the niche is a monolithic granite trough, which has four pointed-arched panels. The niche itself includes squat nook shafts that support a moulded two-centred arch, topped with a steep gable adorned with carved kneelers and a fleur-de-lis finial.
Local climate
Ornamental Drinking Fountain Opposite No 8 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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