Drinking Fountain Approximately 20 Metres from Entrance to Hole House on South Side of Road is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain Approximately 20 Metres from Entrance to Hole House on South Side of Road
- WRENN ID
- haunted-string-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- OS grid reference
- SD 365 998
- Coordinates
- 54.39023, -2.97823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dated 1891, is located approximately 20 meters from the entrance to Hole House on the south side of the road in Claife High Wray. It is constructed of dressed slate with ashlar dressings. The fountain features a crow-stepped gable over an elliptical-arched recess, which has an impost band that runs around the recess. The trough has rounded angles. Above the impost, there is a datestone with the initials AJRA, and below the impost, a stone reads "IN MEMORY OF HAPPY DAYS." To the right of the fountain, there is a short wall and an end pier with a stone bench.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain Approximately 20 Metres from Entrance to Hole House on South Side of Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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