Drinking trough and conduit head is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2017. Drinking trough.
Drinking trough and conduit head
- WRENN ID
- brooding-obsidian-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2017
- Type
- Drinking trough
- Address
- Drinking trough and conduit head, Junction of Shaftesbury Road and New Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8QL
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 234
- Coordinates
- 51.00995, -2.20191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking trough and conduit head, built in 1844, is a combined structure made of coursed and squared Greensand blocks, ashlar, and cast-iron fittings. It is positioned parallel to the road and has a dogleg plan, oriented from northwest to southeast.
The northwest section features a low masonry wall topped with stone capping, which contains a niche with chamfered jambs and a four-centred arched lintel inscribed with the year '1844'. Inside the niche is a cast-iron water spout shaped like a lion’s head, and below it is a canted cast-iron trough with roll mouldings. The southeast section of the structure is slightly taller and has a round-arched recess that holds a pipe; however, the spout is missing, and below this recess is a projecting funnel made of brick or tile.
Local climate
Drinking trough and conduit head receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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