Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Monument.
Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple
- WRENN ID
- nether-attic-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, Babbacombe Downs Road, Babbacombe
- OS grid reference
- SX 924 656
- Coordinates
- 50.48079, -3.51691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, built around 1903. It features a statue created by sculptor Arthur George Walker. The fountain is made of Ashburton marble and has a baluster stem with a moulded foot. In the center of the bowl, there is a green basalt cylindrical moulded plinth that supports a small, naturalistic bronze statue of Lady Mount Temple. She was an art collector who resided at the house in Beach Road, which is now known as the Babbacombe Cliff Hotel.
Local climate
Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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