Sidmouth Memorial Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Fountain.
Sidmouth Memorial Fountain
- WRENN ID
- long-pewter-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Sidmouth Memorial Fountain, Upottery
- OS grid reference
- ST 201 065
- Coordinates
- 50.85249, -3.13603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sidmouth Memorial Fountain is a water fountain dated 1915, built in memory of Viscount Sidmouth. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble. The fountain is slightly set back from the roadside and faces north-west. It is housed in a round-headed niche with a gabled top. The lead water spout is designed to resemble a dolphin, and the water flows into an 18th-century lead cistern, which features ornamental detailing and bears the initials BH along with the date 1774.
Above the water spout, there is a stone plaque that reads: "This fountain is erected in lasting memory of my husband Gerald, 4th Viscount Sidmouth. The welfare of his tenants was his constant thought, and his last care was to give them this supply of pure water. He died on March 25th 1915."
On either side of the niche, tall quadrant walls with rusticated crenellation at the tops curve forward to square terminal posts capped with pyramids. Each wall includes a round-back niche with a low segmental arch head. The fountain has been kept in working order and is now activated by a 20th-century foot button. It is also part of an attractive group of listed buildings that make up the scattered hamlet of Rawridge.
Local climate
Sidmouth Memorial Fountain receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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