Shaft to Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Drinking fountain.
Shaft to Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- rough-cellar-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Shaft to Drinking Fountain, Market Place, Ilminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 361 145
- Coordinates
- 50.9268, -2.91037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a shaft for a drinking fountain located in Ilminster's Market Place. It dates from the 19th century and was rebuilt in 1982. The structure is made of Ham Hill stone and sits on a slate base, standing approximately 2.5 meters high. It has a tapering hexagonal shape with a double plinth and features segmental arches that create recessed panels on each face. A moulded cornice is situated below a step that leads up to a hexagonal pyramidal cap. Although the pump has been removed, there is a small trough and drain located at the base on the east side.
Local climate
Shaft to Drinking Fountain receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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