Drinking fountain, (at) 3 South Promenade, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 11 July 1977.
Drinking fountain, (at) 3 South Promenade, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- slow-courtyard-ridge
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1977
- Irish grid reference
- J 376 302
- Coordinates
- 54.20306, -5.89178
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A granite drinking fountain, or trough, was built in 1893 and is set into the boundary wall to the west side of South Promenade, fronting the Annesley Estate office. The structure is built in a Tudoresque style, featuring a small gable with projecting piers and a large granite trough below, with a small tap above. The gable has chamfered coping and a central memorial plaque in Portland stone, edged with polished granite. This plaque is ornamented with a moulded coronet and is dedicated to Priscilla Cecilia, Countess of Annesley. Stocky, projecting piers with cornice-like courses and chamfered caps are situated at the gable ends, resting on plainer piers which project from the low boundary wall, upon which the gable rests. The boundary wall retains its original wrought iron railings. The fountain was erected in 1893 through public subscription, and was dedicated along with a nearby hall to the memory of Priscilla Cecilia, Countess of Annesley, who died two years prior. The hall appears to be a remodelling of a school house originally built in 1857.
Local climate
Drinking fountain, (at) 3 South Promenade, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 95% 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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