Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Road Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Roads is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1993. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Road Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Roads
- WRENN ID
- noble-fireplace-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1993
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- SX 863 600
- Coordinates
- 50.42966, -3.60079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located at the junction of Totnes and Blagdon Roads in Paignton, was built around 1900. It is constructed from snecked local red breccia and granite. The fountain features a recess with a Tudor-style granite arch and a red breccia wall behind it. It has a pink polished granite bowl with a shaped base and a granite moulded panel above. Below the main bowl, there is a small rectangular dog bowl.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Road Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Totnes and Blagdon Roads receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow 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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