Public Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Public drinking fountain.
Public Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- slow-tower-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Public drinking fountain
- Address
- Public Drinking Fountain, Hempsyke, Eskdaleside Cum Ugglebarnby, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 883 056
- Coordinates
- 54.43893, -0.64006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public drinking fountain, built in 1856, is located in Ugglebarnby and incorporates a lion's head of an earlier date. Designed by John Allan of Hempsyke, the fountain features a stone trough and a sandstone rubble wall. Water flows from the marble lion's head into a large trough set within a square-headed niche in the wall, which stands approximately 1.75 meters high. The top of the wall is shaped in the center between volutes to encompass a semicircular inset panel that is carved with the following inscription:
"A HEMPSYKE Wall over niche contains three engraved plaques:- Weary stranger Here you see This stream is pure as if from An emblem of true Charity Heaven it ran Richly my bounty I bestow And while I praise the Lord I'll Made by a kindly hand to flow thank the man. And I have fresh supplies from Heaven For every cup of water given. Tramp 1861 John Allan Hempsyke 1858 Man made the Trough The water God bestows Then praise His nine From whom the blessing flows John Allan Hempsyke 1856."
Local climate
Public Drinking Fountain receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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