Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Fountain. 2 related planning applications.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- lesser-column-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Drinking Fountain, Market Place, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 436
- Coordinates
- 51.19066, -2.54679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dating from around 1868, is located in the Market Place of Shepton Mallet. It is constructed from a variety of English stones, including Cornish granite, Doulting limestone, Cornish serpentine, and Pennant sandstone. The fountain features a square Gothic design with a plinth, crocketed gables, and finials. The gables are adorned with armorial shields set within blind trefoils. On the west side, there is a metal drinking trough, and at the base, a trough for dogs. The fountain is surrounded by cast gratings over a drain around the plinth.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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