Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- hidden-nave-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Falstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 723 874
- Coordinates
- 55.18076, -2.43594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drinking fountain erected in 1897 for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is made of ashlar and cast-iron. The fountain features a gabled stone wall approximately 6 feet high with a flat coping, inscribed with "ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION." Set into this wall is an elaborate cast-iron drinking fountain that has a fluted oval bowl and a scalloped shell top. Above the bowl is a profile medallion of Queen Victoria, inscribed with "1837 VR 1897," and flanked by two griffins.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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