Spring Head and Horse Trough is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1993. Water trough.
Spring Head and Horse Trough
- WRENN ID
- veiled-cloister-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1993
- Type
- Water trough
- Address
- Spring Head and Horse Trough, Oughterside and Allerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 075 409
- Coordinates
- 54.7554, -3.43763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spring Head and Horse Trough is a late 18th century or earlier structure located in Aspatria. It features a shallow rectangular stone water trough that is set just above ground level to collect water from the feeder spring. On either side of the trough, there are low retaining walls made of roughly-coursed sandstone, each approximately 1.25 metres high and extending about 2 metres in length. This trough was used for horse-drawn traffic on the colliery road to Baggrow before the railway was developed, as well as for transporting grain to and from the local mill.
Local climate
Spring Head and Horse Trough sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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