Prince Of Wales Fountain, 44 Promenade, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Fountain.

Prince Of Wales Fountain, 44 Promenade, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
cold-postern-wax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NT 308 740
Coordinates
55.95418, -3.10874
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Prince of Wales Fountain, located at 44 Promenade in Portobello, Edinburgh, was built in 1860. It is made of pink sandstone and granite and originally featured water jets. The fountain has a square-plan base with low, semi-circular moulded granite drinking troughs on each side. Plain pilasters flank the outer sections of each side. The upper part of the fountain is drum-shaped and is adorned with carved swags, topped with a large urn finial that has gadrooning.

Local climate

Prince Of Wales Fountain, 44 Promenade, Portobello, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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