Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- fossil-barrel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Ambleside Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 407 992
- Coordinates
- 54.38553, -2.91391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, located beside the Wynlass Beck on the east side of Ambleside Road, was built in 1858 and features a Gothic style. It has a pointed arch set within castellated walling.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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