Fountain, Opposite 216 Coast Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co. Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. Fountain.

Fountain, Opposite 216 Coast Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co. Antrim

WRENN ID
waning-pavement-aspen
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Mid and East Antrim
Constituency
East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Type
Fountain
Irish grid reference
D 377 078
Coordinates
54.89906, -5.85397
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

The fountain, situated opposite 216 Coast Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co. Antrim, was constructed between 1920 and 1939. It is a cast iron fountain of a plain design, featuring a fluted column and a fluted cap topped with an acorn finial. The base of the column bears the inscription "Glenfield." Notably, the fountain holds group value alongside the other listed fountains in Ballygalley. The fountain was located on the seaward side of the Coast Road and was still functioning at the time of a 1997 description. It was not marked on Ordnance Survey maps from 1903 or 1930. The fountain was removed around the end of 2006. It possesses industrial archaeological interest.

Local climate

Fountain, Opposite 216 Coast Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co. Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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