Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1983. Drinking fountain, horse trough.

Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1983
Type
Drinking fountain, horse trough
Address
Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough, High Street, Stow-On-The-Wold
OS grid reference
SP 190 260
Coordinates
51.93224, -1.72402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain and horse trough, built in 1867-1868, is a Grade II listed structure located at the north end of High Street. It commemorates the first regular supply of pure water for the town and the generous donation of £2,000 by Joseph Chamberlayne, which allowed for the well to be dug deeper. The fountain features a Gothic design with four sides, a masonry pyramidal roof, and a poppyhead. Each face has a rough label above a cusped panel, and the structure includes two horse troughs, two drinking fountains, and a dog bowl. It replaced a horse pond at the junction of High Street and the Fosse Way.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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