Drinking fountain, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Drinking fountain.
Drinking fountain, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- small-clay-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking fountain, Market Place, Dalton in Furness, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 226 739
- Coordinates
- 54.15566, -3.18598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, located in the Market Place of Dalton in Furness, was built in 1897 by Walter MacFarlane and Co of Glasgow and restored in the 1980s. It is made of cast iron and features a four-columned umbrella over the fountain, which stands on a stone plinth. The fluted columns have ornamental bases and capitals that support moulded and cusped arches, adorned with pierced spandrels and corner dragons. Above each arch are roundels, with the western roundel inscribed with the cartouche 'ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HER MAJESTYS DIAMOND JUBILEE' and the motto 'KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY' above it. The canopy is pierced and topped with a crown finial. The fountain itself has a broad bowl on a four-columned shaft, with a roundel at the back depicting Queen Victoria and side roundels that each show herons. There is a matching fountain located at Askam-in-Furness on Duke Street.
Local climate
Drinking fountain, Market Place sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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