Drinking Fountain at Junction with Baslow Road and Coombs Road Drinking Fountain at Junction with Coombs Road and Station Road is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain at Junction with Baslow Road and Coombs Road Drinking Fountain at Junction with Coombs Road and Station Road

WRENN ID
old-wicket-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain at Junction with Baslow Road and Coombs Road Drinking Fountain at Junction with Coombs Road and Station Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 219 686
Coordinates
53.2148, -1.67217
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain located at the junction of Baslow Road and Coombs Road in Bakewell dates from around 1870 and has been altered. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and sits on a gritstone plinth, which features three hexagonal steps. The fountain itself is triangular and designed in the Gothic Revival style, with miniature diagonal buttresses and gablets. It has semi-circular basins supported by columnar shafts, positioned beneath large gables adorned with ball-flower ornament. One side of the fountain has had its original basin removed. At the top, there is an ashlar spire with rustication and fishscale bands, culminating in a large ball finial that is now topped with a 20th-century street lamp featuring three lanterns.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain at Junction with Baslow Road and Coombs Road Drinking Fountain at Junction with Coombs Road and Station Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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