Drinking Fountain, Main Road, Cardross is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1996. Fountain.
Drinking Fountain, Main Road, Cardross
- WRENN ID
- wild-pediment-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1996
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NS 345 775
- Coordinates
- 55.96263, -4.65268
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This drinking fountain, dated 1902, is made of pink granite and is designed in a monument style. It is set into a curved rubble wall. The fountain features a lion's head spout that is framed by a fluted aedicule. Above the spout, there is a consoled pediment with a crown and the initials "ER" engraved on it. The date "1902" is also engraved at the bottom of the fountain.
Local climate
Drinking Fountain, Main Road, Cardross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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