Water Supply Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Fountain.
Water Supply Fountain
- WRENN ID
- tangled-nave-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Water Supply Fountain, the Square, Middleton and Smerrill, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 195 632
- Coordinates
- 53.16594, -1.70863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water supply fountain, dated 1876, is located on the north side of The Square in the parish of Middleton and Smerrill. It features a shallow blind arch with incised voussoirs and a projecting keyblock. Above the arch, there is a ball finial that is supported by hexagonal columns set into a quoined recess in a low wall. The archstones and the area below the arch bear the inscription 'The Gift of TWB Esq 1876'.
Local climate
Water Supply Fountain 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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