The Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1974. Fountain.

The Fountain

WRENN ID
patient-hinge-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1974
Type
Fountain
Address
The Fountain, Main Street, Denton
OS grid reference
SE 143 489
Coordinates
53.93683, -1.78332
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Fountain is a disused well head, likely from the late 18th century, made of gritstone. It stands approximately 1.5 metres high and features a circular base topped with a monolithic, apple-shaped stone basin that has a diameter of about 1 metre. The basin is in two parts and is finished with a single piece ball and cushion finial on top. The top of the stone is slightly raised to serve as a seating for the finial. There is a blocked outlet hole located low on the south-east side, and a paving stone beneath it has a cast-iron drain cover.

Local climate

The Fountain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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