Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Sea View and Berrow Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. A 19th century Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Sea View and Berrow Road
- WRENN ID
- nether-bailey-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Sea View and Berrow Road, Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 304 496
- Coordinates
- 51.24155, -2.99707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The drinking fountain, dated 1897, is located at the junction of Sea View and Berrow Road in Burnham-on-Sea. It features a single dressed stone pier with a moulded plinth. The upper section has an angled and moulded pilaster at each corner, adorned with acanthus decoration, and is topped with a cast iron urn. There are lion heads on the north and south sides that provide water into a Purbeck Marble bowl. The fountain is included in the register primarily for its landscape value.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain at the Junction of Sea View and Berrow Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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