Sir John S Forbes Memorial Fountain, Main Street, Fettercairn is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972.

Sir John S Forbes Memorial Fountain, Main Street, Fettercairn

WRENN ID
late-porch-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1972
OS grid reference
NO 650 734
Coordinates
56.85155, -2.57515
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Sir John S Forbes Memorial Fountain, located on Main Street in Fettercairn, was designed in 1869 by architect David Bryce and sculptor John Rhind. The fountain is built of Redhall sandstone and is in a Gothic style. It has a square plan with an octagonal, crocketted spirelet atop a stepped base. The fountain is referenced in Cameron’s ‘The History of Fettercairn’.

Local climate

Sir John S Forbes Memorial Fountain, Main Street, Fettercairn receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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